Crossword for Fri, 5/Oct/2012

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Across
1: Boggy terrain didn't sink Plan C's successor? (9)

6: First Lady flees Dame Ednas tantrums (5)

9: End inner-value conversion in UK taxes (6,7)

10: Before much time has elapsed a nobleman takes that over there (5,2)

11: Goes bad and accepts never-ending abuses of the system (5)

13: Bloody bored inside (3)

14: Robe's eyelet exposes more than fat (5)

16: Down by one shot (5)

17: Cathy's new boat (5)

19: Write off aggregate (5)

20: Crew member is one in operating room (3)

21: Acid destroyed brace (5)

22: Vie with prisoner and nurse (7)

24: Guess what the benighted marksman did? (4,2,3,4)

26: Conservative interrupting nobody for the time being (5)

27: Difficult newspaper or novel (4,5)
Down
1: Dessert is said to be set. (5)

2: Everyone's embarrassed about university being enticed (7)

3: 28 Invitation for man to get a cent on November 5? (5,3,3,3)

4: In favour of an outer garment for protection (5)

5: Bird and man going different ways (9)

6: Control escape (3)

7: Speculated that it was a talkative visitor (7)

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

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

13: Uncommon fly on rare plant (5,4)

15: Institute has his stable converted (9)

18: French song composed by German boy in study (7)

20: Too many weapons perhaps for this type of bowling! (7)

22: More appealing to snub royalty? (5)

23: Skied around protective barriers (5)

25: Nothing we have to pay (3)




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