Crossword for Sun, 8/Jun/2008

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Across
1: See, you are a cad. (3)

3: Stimulant produced as choir paid off (11)

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

9: Lada, for example, gets favourite treatment for VIPs (3,6)

11: Boatman from old region? (9)

12: Freeze one mug filled with tea, essentially (3,2)

13: Imaginary childhood? (7)

15: Tucks in untidy singlets, missing the tail end (7)

16: Providing cash for pleasure - many a mixed drink! (7)

18: Strange red item showing black mark (7)

20: Dopey stunt (5)

21: You say the apartment you let someone use is having a problem with gas? (9)

24: Result of sleeping in currently fashionable paintings (4,5)

25: Out of context rather more than is necessary (5)

26: Steer TS into alternative routes (4,7)

27: What's left when you burn the tree (3)
Down
1: Catch first fish? Hold fast (5)

2: Jewish leader second in the shower (5)

3: ... and soon it will be read as etc. (3,2,2)

4: Shock harlot if I report it (7)

5: Feed all but the first stranger (5)

6: I'm getting old pictures (7)

7: Manager of Shanghai operation is one who is making an impact? (9)

10: Sort of collection to compose print (7)

13: One who does not believe in Castro (7)

14: Incredible disorder in fat cats (9)

17: Swarms all over fashionable gatherings (7)

18: He was called to defend complicated Fed rate (7)

19: Mum gets customers some guns (7)

21: Natural talent in opening measures of Franz Liszt melody (5)

22: Crowd scene actor appearing in special edition (5)

23: Discipline the heartless and agonize endlessly (5)




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