Crossword for Wed, 10/Oct/2007

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Across
1: Demonstrated the way in which to keep poles apart (5)

4: Nude redhead receiving backward glance is one serving drinks (9)

9: Drunkard turns up near beach, reversing new habit, to sleep fitfully (4,3,4)

11: Go over and bring harness-racing horse back (5)

13: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

14: Antelope found in oriental country.(5

15: Black hole shows how droppings take time (7)

16: Loves turncoat in extremely raunchy speechmaking (7)

18: Live within the lustre of a spirited place (7)

19: Batters consisting of partially digested food and semi-solids (7)

21: Fairs with examples of sex positions (5)

23: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

24: Media reports boxing, rejecting music (5)

25: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)

27: Name assumed to be no dupe's my disguise (9)

28: Biting piece of chocolate with dry exterior (5)

Down
1: Deviated before getting cast out (7)

2: Choose to take the top off (3)

3: Relative takes funny pose on glass bridge? (9)

5: To initiate into communist units, they carry the vital gas. (3, 5, 5)

6: Bring out French nobleman with ease (5)

7: Sent one page rewritten in military lingo (11)

8: Quickly assemble dry pail (7)

10: Double profit repeatedly (5,3,5)

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

17: Also major European capital lawman in northern constellation (9)

18: Play faster in last 3/4 of piece with bass held backward (5,2)

20: Borders of shoreline spot harboring tiny marine vegetation (7)

22: Course left out of Texas city's comeback (5)

26: Standard style of music rejected (3)





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