Crossword for Thu, 24/Dec/2009

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Across
1: Invention to trick four into a stupor (11)

6: Choose to take the top off (3)

8: I'm getting old and you can't get over it (7)

10: Revolver pointing up and down (7)

11: Mirror steps to Gore; props to Will Rogers (7)

13: I lead soldiers to keepsake (7)

15: African region of birth (5)

16: Large masses of insects beleaguering crazed lion (9)

17: Terribly versatile family (9)

18: Confederates sample party food while talking (5)

19: Wordy poem about Hope, mostly (7)

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

21: University with unconventional stance about unconventional person (7)

24: Girl hangs around artists' quarter for something to get tanked with? (7)

26: Essential part of Cayce's power! (3)

27: Enticements disrupt mental rules (11)
Down
2: Unappealing environment for a snooze (3)

3: Wives' strange ideas (5)

4: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

5: Those who study bugs' motion got less confused (13)

6: Cot is unmade for short month in fall (3)

7: Cat linked stories to the underworld (8-5)

8: End inner-value conversion in UK taxes (6,7)

9: A little sports car, let to harassed Southern belle (8,5)

12: Blabbermouth a little later on is noisy, venomous creature (7)

13: Reportedly, guys take advantage of lists (5)

14: Hazel's protector, say, makes one mad (7)

16: Film #6 taken in by Stooge #1? (5)

20: Argue about something boring (5)

22: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)

23: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

25: Polygraph unexpectedly traps vandal (3)




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