Crossword for Fri, 1/Jun/2007

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Across
1: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

3: Mary-Jane crochets her Pop a jumper (11)

8: Britannia - she never has blanched (5)

9: Set cruise-ship for the puritan (4-5)

11: Butts in front of people, breaking drinks (5)

13: One of museums awash with cultural treasures (9)

14: Stopped? No somehow deferred (9)

16: More appealing to snub royalty? (5)

17: Look into bazooka-firing Afghanistan people (5)

19: One who administers drug treatments puts me in band at Hat Head (9)

21: Leaving no trail, Penny and Les hid in the middle of Sussex (9)

23: Lady sitting atop a bird (5)

25: Electrical units losing energy . . . and . . . and . . . (9)

27: Zealous police action captures leader of blackmailers (5)

28: Feeling threatened, suggested concealing identity (11)

29: Start reducing salt? (3)
Down
1: One in charge of carbon filament (5)

2: Plots get Cuban revolutionary leader in a terrible mess (7)

3: Trap with hands? (3)

4: What's left when you burn the tree (3)

5: Pilot sometimes sounded more irritated (5)

6: Confine Grandma for a time to make flag (7)

7: Metallic element forming excellent electrical connection (4,5)

10: 'Gigolo, Inc.' lothario sporting primitive G-string (9)

12: Prominent performer with Peru's wild climbing rodents (9)

13: Quasimodos intuition? (5)

14: Asian president ordering Asian kit (9)

15: Beat outright a small French romantic (5)

18: Spring inside proper old theatre (7)

20: Circus performer in a European big top (7)

22: Antelope found in oriental country.(5

24: The lowest point in a dire section (5)

26: Period email feature (3)

27: Road without a pole (4)




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