Crossword for Tue, 3/Jul/2007

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Across
1: One Miss Horn takes a tumble with guys having outlaw spirits (11)

9: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)

10: Bobbed beneath in playful attempt to drown journalist. (6, 5)

11: Unskillful partner wearing gold ring, at first (7)

12: Shady like the other cabinet (7)

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

15: Came back on a diet anew and wasted away (9)

17: Real idiot garbled opiniated commentary (9)

19: Grand space for bride's mate (5)

21: Object to professional examination (7)

22: Bees encircling trash--back, over, and above (7)

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

26: Odds of niece being born (3)

27: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

Down
1: Food product of the sea - including fish (9)

2: Auto manufacturer meeting a lieutenant in 'The Ancient Mariner'? (3,4)

3: Rushes for middle of glossed lip (5)

4: Provoke popular scoundrel. (5)

5: You audibly ram partner (3)

6: Characteristic of old door, mouse. (9)

7: Incredibly stoned, taking Intro to Math final (7)

8: Before time like an aristocrat? (5)

12: 18-across Buyers should check this run around shops (5,5)

14: Revels too bad for former President (9)

15: To live with a former partner is the final result (5)

16: Syrian mother with a part in a play (9)

18: Extraordinary oldies I greatly revere (7)

20: Word in a lexicon describing kind of number (7)

21: Small area of land for unchanging Chinese (5)

22: First bud to emerge in flower. (5)

23: Bouquet's sent up to network director? (5)

25: Consumed and digested tea (3)





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