Crossword for Sun, 23/Aug/2009

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Across
1: Challenge the bench in retaliation. (13)

8: Supremely clever stories, overlaid with humor (7)

10: Church organ initially secures selections (7)

11: The stagecoach industry (9)

13: Brilliance she takes in (5)

14: Places for vacations, quiet intervals or breaks (7)

15: On second thoughts, rising fish glitter (7)

16: French scientist tears up plays (7)

19: Doris has residence in old West African republic (7)

21: Old physician in sheltered church (5)

22: Bird and man going different ways (9)

24: Started frustrating us in real unwillingness to accept (7)

25: The king did not stand for it when he heard that he ogles her. (4, 3)

27: Vicious return to professional serve reveals the inequality. (13)
Down
1: Intimidated, we tucked into fish (5)

2: Draw the knot (3)

3: The grades of naval seamen (7)

4: People who put their kids to bed in fatigues? (7)

5: Toss a hammer into a nuclear accelerator! (4,7)

6: Complaining ruler gets expression of disgust (7)

7: One American tree growing wild that's very plain (7)

9: Still drunk, sings in a light, rhythmic way (5)

12: Watering devices found in run-down orange sheds (6, 5)

16: Star first overhauls top landholding, bolstered by French capital (7)

17: Bound her, as subject, to a government official (7)

18: Joker idled lazily among ring leaders (7)

19: Evolve from crude Velo predator (7)

20: Bumps into butcher's display of tongue? (5)

23: Bird gets an eminent man (5)

26: Song is a gas (3)




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