Crossword for Mon, 4/Dec/2006

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Across
2: Casts off shacks (5)

5: Imaginary childhood? (7)

8: Treads for one of the family (7)

9: Spanish wine from a city in Brazil getting German approval (5)

10: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)

12: Loathes key English exams (7)

14: Bury with arms and legs but no head (5)

16: Bring Father back to hang buckets on maples again (5)

19: About fifty-one complaints - they're thought to be true (7)

22: Weapons in a womans speech (11)

23: Path of planet - or particle (5)

24: New Testament stories about gifts (7)

26: A murder suspect, one hears? (7)

27: Wooded hillock forming part of Arthur's territory (5)
Down
1: English poet holding us responsible for hold-up? (9)

3: Aliens set off (3)

4: Records that could be hits (7)

5: Artist's entrance (7)

6: Tool placed under sack as a safety precaution (4,5)

7: Do the young work for long? (5)

10: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

11: Small piece of fish (3)

13: Someone in favour of wine in jolly good surroundings (9)

15: Do springs help American author? (3,6)

17: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

18: After start of century, Maud, I'm mixing a yellow pigment (7)

19: To fascinate a disagreeable female we turned in (7)

20: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

21: A garden ornament makes men go mad (5)

25: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)




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