Crossword for Thu, 10/Sep/2009

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Across
1: Weirdos drop feet-first in pools (5)

4: Took exception to insult and discharged editor (9)

8: Add pantry to make dude! (9)

9: Taxi in a log house? (5)

11: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)

12: Support sign for subordinates (11)

13: Nick shouts - and theres trouble brewing! (3,5,2,3)

15: Modernise rear, in the opinion of escort (5,2,2,4)

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

23: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

24: Biblical refugee, American flower (5)

25: Beloved airman to a formation (9)

27: Syrian mother with a part in a play (9)

28: No hay for big punch fabricator (5)
Down
1: Bald guy squashes insect (7)

2: Former leader's relative with bit of tension in stomach (4, 3)

3: Pen extracts articles from satay (3)

4: Incorrectly read pitch for a song (4,5)

5: A chair may be material (5)

6: Starting off, bent charm (7)

7: The day ends with an unpleasant ancestral line (7)

10: Airship loose after opening bombardment (5)

12: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

14: In love with copper? Gone to give the needle? (9)

15: Fought and bled after receiving a little attention (7)

16: Detailed map I sent off (5)

17: Good girls in spectacles (7)

18: In the manner of a girl (3)

19: Identify damage found in back of the ark (7)

20: Uncrate 'Rampaging Horseman'? (7)

22: Childish nonsense before the last trip (5)

26: Rohmer hiding unit of Resistance (3)




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