Crossword for Wed, 11/Mar/2009

1
 
2
 
 
 
3
 
4
 
 
 
5
 
 
 
6
 
 
 
7
 
 
 
8
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12
 
13
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14
 
 
 
 
 
15
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16
 
 
 
17
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18
 
 
 
19
 
 
 
 
 
20
 
 
 
21
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25
 
26
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Across
2: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

4: Delilah, practically bare, cuts hair! (9)

9: How the obese appear to hunt? (4,5)

10: Host seems clever, off and on (5)

11: Dear spouse that was thoughtful (9)

13: Chatter about some pay-back (3)

14: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

15: Feeling threatened, suggested concealing identity (11)

16: Bend in Pennsylvania court case related to revered founder (11)

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

22: One politician's a brat (3)

23: Secret art dashed Tennessees desire (9)

24: Troubled tenor with a transposition (2,3,5)

26: Somehow it is clear and practical (9)

27: Heels were repaired in another place (9)

28: Song is a gas (3)
Down
1: Depressions beginning to vex bowling lanes (7)

2: Air transport for the lumberjack? (7)

3: Mere chance of depression interrupting peace (11)

4: Booster involving risk brought to a halt early form of Voyager (7)

5: Trimmed complicated test (7)

6: Draw the knot (3)

7: Half-open tomb put in a shrouded form (7)

8: Deepest swimming is totally immersed (7)

12: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

16: Monkey around, at best (7)

17: Drunk rises, holding tubular headgear (3,4)

18: Again bring food to certain soldier (7)

19: Grass present round container (7)

20: He stirs up a one who had referred to him in the past. (7)

21: Melodic rearrangement of asymmetrically split second part (7)

25: Famous gardens said to move one to speak. (3)




Solution (Reversed)
S
S
E
R
T
P
M
E
T
S
B
C
V
T
N
I
I
O
E
H
A
E
E
C
M
E
D
N
U
O
R
K
O
O
L
E
R
T
R
E
P
L
P
A
Y
L
E
V
I
S
N
E
P
X
E
E
P
A
R
S
D
E
Y
D
E
T
A
D
I
M
I
T
N
I
R
U
S
O
P
L
L
E
L
A
H
C
R
A
I
R
T
A
P
Y
X
C
E
E
T
O
R
R
A
C
T
E
E
R
T
S
Y
P
M
I
I
I
V
B
E
H
M
C
I
T
S
I
L
A
E
R
K
R
A
P
A
A
E
T
G
V
E
T
T
L
R
I
A
E
R
E
H
W
E
S
L
E