Crossword for Tue, 25/Nov/2008

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Across
1: Help out my parched elephant, for example (9)

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

8: Formic neutralises hydrochloric. (7)

10: Cocktail set king supporting the flag (4,3)

11: United States taken in by tax he prepared to squander (7)

13: Weird eastern lake (5)

15: Extremely cold effect of shot of bitters (9)

17: Against space race effect (5)

19: Plant in the edges of the first row (5)

20: Curtailed clothing allowance possibly a revolution factor (4,5)

21: Guided into the West (2,3)

23: Tories put out after Liberal leader hangs around (7)

24: Ape, bird, teal, buck (7)

25: Windbag has nothing on after dance? (7)

26: Classic gibberish (5)

27: Share chain of hills with pear tree percher? (9)
Down
1: Fancied poem composed in comfort (5,2,4)

2: Court that wrongly executed an assassin (9)

3: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

4: Boy gripping top of pine tree (5)

5: Varies order in command? That's debatable (13)

6: Raptor is well under par (5)

7: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)

9: Challenge the bench in retaliation. (13)

12: Movie monster's night out (5)

14: Sound practical perception is a normal feeling (11)

16: Message obscured by cinema illumination (5)

18: Do another version of Kerouac's work (2,3,4)

21: Steel is ruined, nearly destroyed (5)

22: Youngster giving wounded first aid (5)

24: Therefore, finish off this bit of work (3)

25: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)




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