Crossword for Fri, 25/Jan/2008

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Across
1: War or piecemeal missile (5)

3: Prune plums for reserves, once more (9)

7: First confession left the listener feeling no doubt (5)

9: Shed light on strange clue I'm seeing (9)

11: Mixed greens and teals, so dad's remodeled (6,5)

13: Road without a pole (4)

15: Something good made by dwarf barber, perhaps! (6,7)

17: Runner or dramatist in play (13)

20: Child, bask by the sound (3)

21: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)

23: Recreating the past, USS Enterprise finally turned up (9)

25: Had dressed formally without a hat (5)

26: Stopped? No somehow deferred (9)

27: Bring out French nobleman with ease (5)

Down
1: Scarf free tacos (5)

2: Eccentric team owner is behind the times (4-5)

3: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

4: One later enters, like, with matching sides (11)

5: Pound Falcon end into football field (5)

6: Smokey's threat turning up deep in northern parts (5,4)

8: Content little rest for the painter (5)

10: A supporter starting to mock President Garfield's middle name (5)

12: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

14: Slows down before a drive in a fast lane (4,5)

16: 16-down Redundant RE question, like derr (2,3,4,1,8)

18: Man, and French Impressionist (5)

19: Hazardous emanation from river used by a crime boss (5)

21: Ruck dangerously, stop when many are involved. (5)

22: Head of the Venetians bagging dead duck (5)

24: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)





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