Crossword for Mon, 11/Feb/2008

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Across
1: Press against a container of Mexican beer and vodka (7)

5: To fascinate a disagreeable female we turned in (7)

9: Bright-sounding agenda touches on heavyweight legend (5,6)

10: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

11: Monkey around, at best (7)

13: Baseball team against exhibiting high principals in old Assyrian capital (7)

14: Rebel action disrupted festival (11)

16: Child, bask by the sound (3)

17: Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)

19: One Miss Horn takes a tumble with guys having outlaw spirits (11)

21: Roomers include one in camp shelter to the south (7)

22: Keep an unfriendly attitude (7)

24: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

25: Does the wandering hero duly hostess perplex? (7)

28: Big stink-up. Location is disgusting (7)

29: Some slippers and also shoes (7)

Down
1: He told tales about a love with foresight. (5)

2: Burning body to face solar-powered clock (7)

3: Non-clerical song (3)

4: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

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

6: Gained a hearing (3)

7: Dozens of sprites seen on Tuesday and Wednesday initially (7)

8: How imprisoned labourers showed friendship? (4,5)

12: Pathological bumbler holds a record (5)

13: 27-across about starting off 1-down world unconditionally (2,3,2,4)

14: or creates new mobile sound system (3,6)

15: Transfixes the finger-tips (5)

18: Americans look for no revolution (7)

20: Aria Sue belted for a very big hunk?(7)

23: Relieves each emergency service (5)

25: Pass mould (3)

26: Draw the knot (3)

27: Club with space for some money (3)





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