Crossword for Thu, 5/Jan/2012

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Across
1: Believes in harnessing hydrogen for sources of propulsion (7)

5: Plain and simple giblet stuffing (7)

9: Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)

10: Washed-up press agent, having dropped client's butt, is not the one in the driver's seat (9)

11: Short bloke discontinued hike (3)

12: Bar mail of unadorned capital (5,6)

14: A vine sometimes can seem green (5)

16: In my greed I blessed food (7)

18: Love nest a real sign of being pretty easy (3-4)

19: Drive carefully and live (5)

20: Drunkard turns up near beach, reversing new habit, to sleep fitfully (4,3,4)

23: Gained a hearing (3)

24: Bugs emerge in a zoo (9)

25: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)

26: The rate changed at movie house (7)

27: Closest home receives attention (7)

Down
1: Rejecting crew's work on board, you rest at the stern (8,3)

2: Stir outspoken 3-down resident, usually (5)

3: Second chunkiest is shortest and thickest (9)

4: Dine and drink with fan (9)

5: Appeal, as I kneel, revealing special light in my eyes? (5)

6: Origins of giddy exhuberant energy -- stunningly emptyheaded! (5)

7: Beauty held a label up as being the merest trifle (9)

8: Terrier shows how to stray (3)

13: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)

15: Fashionable fragrance, fundamentally (2,7)

16: Run a piece peculiarly devoted to the pursuit of sensual pleasures (9)

17: Country encircling one's country (9)

21: Hangs tough, concealing apprehension (5)

22: Anger doctor internalizes is more serious (5)

23: Complete western part of golf course (5)

24: Bumped into yours truly at junction (3).





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