Crossword for Fri, 4/Apr/2008

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Across
1: Lightened up, taking part in strip-tease dance (5)

3: Irrational number turning his coat into nut (9)

7: Propensities for placing bets about leader of nags (5)

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

11: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)

13: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)

15: Changes direction with care, as befits a benefactor. (4, 4, 5)

17: Tint bark clogs to provide foot support (8,5)

20: Frost to cover the cake (3)

21: Barque, for one, is a trio-tutor (5-6)

23: Person pressing a lawsuit torched one reptile? (9)

25: Test limits of sexologist in assignation (5)

26: Put another way, perhaps, clarinet overwhelming harps, somehow (9)

27: Stormy channel discovered? (5)
Down
1: The end of a fire (or a month?) (5)

2: Untrustworthy hedonists cavorting (9)

3: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

4: Check strong drink of 22-acrosss bold alter ego (5,6)

5: American capital supplied plant (5)

6: Beings massing or migrating (9)

8: Odd bits of Niacin and Sprite (5)

10: Children nicely holding back secret (5)

12: The star of 'Ellen' has at folks with substandard morals (11)

14: One who concentrates on princess, yet ignores her at first (9)

16: Couple gain control of schooner, for example (3-6)

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

19: Full house often enough to secure this young pet (5)

21: Going back in where GI trapped predator (5)

22: Gag about alien in Royal Childrens Hospital (5)

24: Clear initial rubbish in drain (3)




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