Crossword for Mon, 28/Sep/2009

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Across
1: Contracted to bring out in the middle of the road (7)

5: Hot and sultry, stripping right in current (7)

8: Dodge Prelude is missing a couple of parts (5)

9: To get out three bunnies? (9)

11: Dead in place of rest, but not soon enough. (7)

12: Sift around half-killed transporter (3-4)

13: Coal remaining at the end of a month (5)

14: Don't cease ridiculous stories (9)

16: New lease isn't required (9)

18: A complex surprise (5)

19: Yellow fowl (7)

20: He stirs up a one who had referred to him in the past. (7)

22: Cast update: Loy gave a superior performance (9)

24: Black boy twice contracted virus (5)

26: The portrayal of things as they are in Mailer's novel (7)

27: Head of Daimler (U.K.) brought back style to noble estate (7)
Down
1: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

2: Repeated note to help player? (6-7)

3: Headache starts to reveal a body part (5)

4: Hoarded tiny bits of dryness (11)

5: Child is to depart, finally (3)

6: Norm even had a good time (7)

7: Zantac's first in things to buy for composer (5)

10: Actor works on two dialects (5,8)

11: Mark in Russian bar, empty the night before (5)

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

15: Downright fine (5)

17: '5 cents', I slurred, 'for a Russian man' (7)

19: Ascendant Brazilian city supports church singing group (5)

21: After church, scream at sight of mouse's boldness (5)

23: Root for mounting might (3)

25: Direct object (3)




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