Crossword for Thu, 16/Sep/2010

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Across
1: Complain about the horse (3)

3: Crazy to clean sons in awful mess (11)

7: Old physician in sheltered church (5)

8: Fatal crime may lead to damnation (6,3)

11: Ensemble originally formed with ocarina, cello, theremin, euphonium, and tabla (5)

13: Record that it was to insult (2,3,4)

14: Exhausted writer found in street (5)

15: Freshen the atmosphere (3)

16: Tony flipped over English floor covering (5)

17: Writer deserts pea-green match (5)

18: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

19: Native American involved in drug problem exposed (5)

20: Cemetery's a serious place (9)

21: Miserable raise follows poor grade (5)

22: Curing bad meat in English river (9)

24: Belated top-and-tailing to gladden one's heart (5)

26: Sly dog covers horses for dancers (3-8)

27: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)
Down
1: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

2: Canadian water ordered for regal tea-break (5,4,4)

3: Solo, the pilot rises? No way (3)

4: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

5: Quite put out, doctor axes red tape (11)

6: Inspects old radical for a moment (5, 6)

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

10: Rev. Spooner says 'The person massaging Reagan is illiterate' (3-6)

11: Assault on SandL comes to nothing (9)

12: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)

13: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

23: Draw the knot (3)

24: Aliens set off (3)

25: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)




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