Crossword for Thu, 8/Apr/2010

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Across
1: Central section interrupting main tune (7)

5: Bomb compartment - note damaged weapon (7)

7: Underworld biggie (and chief stoolie) is a rich and powerful person (9)

8: Starts to prepare every kind of European tea (5)

10: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

11: Stayed only a moment at lewd Western with titillating beginning? Just the opposite! (5)

13: Had dressed formally without a hat (5)

14: Small piece of fish (3)

15: Wizards covered in liquor and beer...it might be for charity (7, 4)

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

19: Choose to take the top off (3)

20: Fancy decoration thats cool on the surface? (5)

21: Argument in the meeting (5)

22: See, you are a cad. (3)

24: Swamp creature resting tail on a rocky outcrop (5)

25: Everlasting variety for Peter and Paul (9)

26: Again Italian couple is late (7)

27: Turncoat's quality: amoral heart (7)
Down
1: He adopts park tree (5)

2: Repeated note to help player? (6-7)

3: Working sequentially (2,5)

4: Fashion term heartless: Feeling up Blossom (6-2-3)

5: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)

6: Most in side swim in Derbys river (9)

8: Fake endless call (5)

9: Cook ran; ragout spilled; one might jump to conclusions here? (8,5)

12: Exchange concealed proprietary knowledge (5,6)

14: Strange set-back overwhelms blundering bravado (7-2)

17: Between them, both sides have time for a drink. (5)

18: There is a Santa, perhaps (7)

23: One who regrets having left leader (5)

25: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)




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