Crossword for Mon, 3/Sep/2007

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Across
1: 18-across Buyers should check this run around shops (5,5)

4: Batman novel is pure horse ... ! (9)

9: Sally was ready to embrace East German (7)

10: Miserable raise follows poor grade (5)

11: Froglike seat fungus (9)

12: Hardly a booze commercial nymph (5)

13: Drunk held firmly (5)

14: Mischievously cheat on board for packets (7)

17: Damage the object, Mr. Gore, having to do with marriage (7)

19: Stayed only a moment at lewd Western with titillating beginning? Just the opposite! (5)

20: Inherently reproach affinity for worthless stuff (5)

22: Change in ultimate diet for the evening? (9)

23: Proficient in arithmetic, starting with short division (5)

25: Wine and cheese brought back by Gershwin? (7)

26: To get out three bunnies? (9)

27: True side (5)
Down
1: Large strumpets turned a trick? (9)

2: Who applies pitch to a snake-rope? (9)

3: Missed hoax set up to trap Sunday drunk outside saloon entrance (4,5,2)

4: Nanny, for example, entertained by young pig (3-4)

5: Sells rides on a bicycle, from the sound of it (7)

6: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

7: Before time like an aristocrat? (5)

8: Retro eatery has nothing covered in grease (5)

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

15: Former spouse looking after offering (9)

16: Last music playing on both TV and radio (9)

18: Crazy alien in a cult (7)

19: Abandons the tents? (7)

20: Squeeze in a pash (5)

21: Long for a mass of reporters (5)

24: Terrier shows how to stray (3)




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