Crossword for Fri, 31/Aug/2012

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Across
1: Edible root on grapevine equals 200 milligrams (5)

4: Endless charades (one variety) I parade before the newlyweds (9)

7: Ninth-inning heroics on one side or the other (9)

9: Getting old drink in silver container (5)

11: Spend too much time on the track where powerlines are frequently found. (4-5)

12: 'There the woman is!' exclaimed in a less friendly way (5)

13: Siamese toolmakers reportedly in colorful clothing (3-4)

15: Alien live around Glacial Ridge? (5)

16: Birds in the wilderness (5)

18: Live within the lustre of a spirited place (7)

21: Guided into the West (2,3)

22: Miserable poor agree with 'La Boheme' spectator (9)

24: Ruse duck (5)

25: Their game baffled a cloister (9)

26: Gee, side dish doesn't include company's observation about gas? (6,3)

27: Genteel Egyptian penning mournful poem (5)
Down
1: Furious persons cry for the lure of the wilderness (4,2,3,4)

2: Slimeball guards existence in French refuge (7)

3: Pitch out heartlessly the cards. (5)

4: State change in cross-location (7)

5: Doesn't move convict housing in a rising (9)

6: Annie is crazy? Stupid! (7)

8: Pulls Americans (5)

10: Dry vegetarian, about to like this puzzle, perhaps? (6, 7)

14: Noted Methodist almost turned up here, not there (9)

17: Famously, Tony led astray (7)

18: Indolence evident in Rowes Lothario (5)

19: One might be uplifted if a cockney spoke of arts such as opera. (7)

20: Nathaniel cuddles one squirming infant (7)

23: A bad back not yet eliminated (5)




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