Crossword for Sun, 3/Feb/2008

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Across
1: Double profit repeatedly (5,3,5)

9: Prepare the blocks for a run, perhaps (7)

10: City Auto Club's closing, mired in debt (7)

11: Excitedly rerun tape for thrill (9)

12: Lick up pal (3)

13: Feeling threatened, suggested concealing identity (11)

14: Various centres on Spanish drain (3)

16: Root for mounting might (3)

18: Think at length about lost planet, comet (11)

22: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)

23: Bore spotted outside of U.S. (9)

25: Virginia gets animal to depart quickly (7)

26: You should remember this about French menu phrase (1,2,4)

27: How a diver might marry (4,3,6)
Down
1: Stop in a tiny settlement in ancient times (9)

2: Thick maple growing wild (5)

3: No saint takes strong drink as a remedy (7)

4: Apartment behind English school reflective place to write (7)

5: Importance of history (7)

6: Winning over the heart of quirky scatterbrain (7)

7: Person of wealth and distinction extremely beautiful to Her Majesty, a horse doper (7)

8: West's last: bottom spade, perhaps (5)

15: Open present yonder (4,5)

17: Set free from rising to study at night; Im unambitious! (7)

18: A large number have a small item of foot wear and an ecclesiastic gown (7)

19: Trail after an uprising beginning to form (7)

20: Electronic man swallowed spring (7)

21: A game stuffing ketchup in balloons (7)

22: Last words from some hidden voices (5)

24: Road leading into dismal swamp (5)




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