Crossword for Tue, 15/Sep/2009

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Across
1: Foolishly I air spats of beekeepers (9)

5: Mrs Schmidt's penny is fake (5)

8: Live with stewed spinach ingredients (4,5)

10: Five Gaelic poems (5)

11: Auto manufacturer meeting a lieutenant in 'The Ancient Mariner'? (3,4)

12: 'I'm at the top! I am chairman of Chrysler Corporation of America.' (7)

14: Fiction position (3)

15: A Hollywood star upset about paparazzi hub in crude social event (6,5)

16: 7-down relic? (6,5)

19: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)

21: Erica was taken into the ship to provide protective covers. (7)

22: Force of nature, like Chubby Checker (7)

23: Polyamide used by many Londoners (5)

25: Model unusually creepy hat (9)

26: Mostly, you drink with mystic (5; var.)

27: Treat sick duck? Mothers after foreign tissue tumours (9)
Down
2: He explored star (7,6)

3: Struck with leading edge of shortstop's glove (7)

4: and 19 A Michelangelo masterpiece right over people's heads here? (7,6)

6: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

7: Alien contributed to Journal of Nutrition (7)

8: British Petroleum dispute (5)

9: Recipient of drink describing gown with energy (9)

10: National official is here, carrying identification, after challenge overwhelms local center (4-9)

13: Confined bear without a trade (9)

16: Madonna and child in stonework? (7)

17: An idiot goes back into a pub serving small potatoes (7)

18: Apprentice relinquishes heart to temptress (7)

20: Tender translator of runes (5)

24: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)




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