Crossword for Mon, 24/May/2010

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Across
1: Many sound prospects for prospectors (5)

3: Swine met end, tied and dyed (9)

8: Get into the archeology scene. (3)

9: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

10: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)

12: Comes last in frightfully easy assessment (5)

13: Conservative interrupting nobody for the time being (5)

14: Ball-horses are travellers! (5-8)

17: Brando rinsing out identification tools (8,5)

21: Acid destroyed brace (5)

22: Sit on marsupials and rats tail (5)

23: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

24: Weapons in a womans speech (11)

25: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

26: Doctor singes off top of sore and bandages (9)

27: Navigate by terse directions (5)
Down
1: Bald guy squashes insect (7)

2: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)

3: Urgently compelled president? Sure - with democratic leader (9)

4: Attack set up by funny-looking little green man (5)

5: Onetime cooking utensils finally leave wide area (7)

6: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)

7: Some engines stop working with less maintenance (7)

9: Common start to limericks confused three (5)

11: Difficult book about Baltic currency (11)

15: It's an odor billowing from Indian dishes (9)

16: Wounded bats put back to bed (7)

18: Ray's about to remain undisturbed by reflections (7)

19: Radicchio tastes good in little bits. (5)

20: More delicate - cast off bluster (7)

22: Horse eating western mountain ash (5)

25: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)




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