Crossword for Sat, 24/Feb/2007

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Across
1: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

3: Maid Marian - half American (9)

7: I see marks on jumbled party favors (11)

8: Nothing we have to pay (3)

9: Starshine somehow loses its shine (9)

10: In Howard's End - one has a passage here from Forster (5)

11: Conclude a recitation off-key (11)

17: Upset top duo; I went and confessed (5,2,2,2)

19: Excite mirth in a daughter of Mnemosyne (5)

20: Bird dog devouring bad lad (4,5)

23: Pass mould (3)

24: Steer TS into alternative routes (4,7)

26: I'm running into ill-humored statements (9)

27: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)
Down
1: Lott, e.g., is upset. Treason! (7)

2: Physician that is right is less interesting (5)

3: Compete with life in France (3)

4: Come to Korea - Chinese part (5)

5: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

6: Article proscribes old Greeks (7)

8: The instruction for derelicts is inclusive (5)

10: Freeze one mug filled with tea, essentially (3,2)

12: Gas makes one put on weight (5)

13: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

14: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

15: Freedom of action in desert (7)

16: Entertain one of nine daughters of Mnemosyne (5)

18: Turncoat's first motive for disloyalty (7)

21: Catch girl with ring (5)

22: Pick a wrong angle (5)

24: One may be transported by this kiss, it's said (3)

25: Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)




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