Crossword for Fri, 1/May/2009

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Across
1: Bear with a blemish following us around (7)

5: Help to lift weight - this might show how (7)

8: Think at length about lost planet, comet (11)

9: On the canvas from third strike (3)

10: An inhabitant of Eastern Europe makes love nearer the middle (7)

12: Popular buzz over an animal (7)

13: Gambler in the middle to call and raise (5,2)

15: Salt sees entrance taking in everyone (7)

17: First of all, you undercooked my meat; I enjoy roast more flavorful (7)

18: Half-finished meal precedes my look back at sacred mountain (7)

19: Remodeled studio with a touch of erotica on the exterior (7)

21: Wine and cheese brought back by Gershwin? (7)

23: Get into the archeology scene. (3)

24: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

27: Stays concerned with water pipes (7)

28: Birds lay first of eggs on parts of shoelaces (7)
Down
1: Fires partner in investment firm, we hear (5)

2: Photoelectric cell starting to involve, with little hesitation, the receptive area of the brain (9)

3: Top card? Excellent! (3)

4: Bite and flip over -- one way to win a wrestling match (3)

5: Seduce husband-to-be in parlor (7, 4)

6: Author of Breathe Out, Lay Out, Going Out? (4,5)

7: 'True men' is false (9)

9: Rohmer hiding unit of Resistance (3)

11: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

13: Robins knitting done by row (3,6)

14: Leaning back, incorporated ruling (9)

16: Fullness from meal I'd put out (9)

20: Send back gangster's gun to get ID (3)

22: Titan is finally cut short (5)

25: Copy of top ten missing (3)

26: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)




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