Crossword for Thu, 26/Apr/2007

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Across
1: Conclude a recitation off-key (11)

7: Small piece of fish (3)

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

10: God, transforming first day into last night, was received (3)

11: Irene's new name (5)

12: Shake three times with essence of magnesia (7)

14: Loud den has style! (5)

16: Equus? Shenanigans! (9)

17: Dons swarm all around fencer (9)

19: Question number one (5)

21: Refuse graduate upgraded mark (7)

22: Policeman extremely sensitive about opportunity (5)

24: Rascal and wuss taking week off (3)

26: Left with pal carrying new gold case (11)

27: Grant loud colour (3)

28: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)
Down
1: Get rid of the circle and end the telephone call (4,3)

2: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

3: Canoe lost in sea (5)

4: I tear to pieces in a fury (5)

5: A superior helper (7)

6: Segregate horses around the object of a hunt (6,3)

7: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)

8: Fatty food shop (7)

13: Hostile warning: one man has captured the queen (11)

15: Lada, for example, gets favourite treatment for VIPs (3,6)

17: Servile son, first prodigal (7)

18: Curate ran immediately back inside tower (7)

20: Intrinsically, lilac queries development of wood varnish (7)

22: Monsieur is immersed in unspecified French river (5)

23: Lightweight cat (5)

25: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)




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