Crossword for Sun, 3/Jan/2010

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Across
1: Madison's statue (5)

4: There aren't any comebacks after such a poor performance. (2, 7)

9: In a dance, little do plenty (9)

11: Kitty's way of saying loudly, 'I hurt'? (5)

12: Gloomy pizza maker taking day off around middle of January (7)

13: Misleading credit card rejected in the day before (7)

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

17: Aunt Peg really messed up the cheap seats (6,7)

21: A bit of the English course may cause embarrassing situations (7)

22: Exhibition is all-inclusive and superficial (7)

23: Endless taping-over is unsuitable (5)

24: One pointer concerning appetizer assortment (9)

26: 'No to sobriety!' -- a cry going to produce unfortunate reputation (9)

27: Man, and French Impressionist (5)

Down
1: Loves turncoat in extremely raunchy speechmaking (7)

2: Decisive curl twisting around spy body (7)

3: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)

5: Ultimately, dconstruire, to the French intellectual, is simple (9)

6: Bell tower providing temporary accommodation by a river (9)

7: Mailer's reinterpreted depiction of the way things are (7)

8: Rose was refined, but would never make a silk purse (4,3)

10: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

15: Hornblower found a strange dog hidden by a hill (9)

16: Part of lower body is slow to make laws (9)

17: Love Spain so terribly (7)

18: Express one's emotions in fancy cabaret (7)

19: Russian leader unorthodox in style (7)

20: Economical at sea, netting white cod, mostly... (3-4)

22: Take Chair in university (3)

25: Plan to return with woman (3)





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