Crossword for Mon, 27/Apr/2009

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Across
1: Sparks from auto backing up over tree (7)

5: Awful bed lace causes fiasco (7)

9: Create an impression on an envelope? (5)

10: Former color no longer available? (7)

11: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)

12: Time has corroded faithlessness (7)

14: Ninth-inning heroics on one side or the other (9)

15: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

16: Worthless even when recycled (3)

18: Conservative, appropriate extension (5,4)

21: Aboard a ship is shipping magnate (7)

22: Certain engines stall less jerkily (7)

23: Announced at first match: 'You are on the net. This is unprofessional.' (7)

25: Bumps into butcher's display of tongue? (5)

26: Sneezy's problem largely fixed (7)

27: Debate again, coming from behind and vaguely in the middle (7)
Down
2: Worker in new data capture firm (7)

3: Healers swear by the cases of the little river horse. (11)

4: Certainly, Mr. Gore welcoming Republican is bizarre (7)

5: Alien contributed to Journal of Nutrition (7)

6: Animal hiding in abattoir (3)

7: Send inmates free gin (7)

8: Those who study bugs' motion got less confused (13)

9: A little sports car, let to harassed Southern belle (8,5)

13: Risk of pole womans end being upset after handy beer (11)

17: Hikers' path around Virginia is hard work (7)

18: After the legal thing, give thanks to God and go after the vermin again (7)

19: Animal turned left - that is right for the more righteous (7)

20: This sort of salad vegetable is found mostly below the surface. (7)

24: Wander around inside territory (3)




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