Crossword for Mon, 11/Aug/2008

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Across
1: Smear record colour - that one (9)

6: Anchors in peat bogs (5)

10: Circle-drawer combines with 27 to make direction card (7)

11: Lacking energy, no Tech win (5)

12: Perhaps a bathroom contractor is mentioned to a former president (5)

13: Most important rule, they say (9)

14: Security chief purged a pair of generals (5)

15: Anyway - no! (3)

16: Sprinkles studs under reconstruction (5)

17: Defeated after losing leader, gets plastered (5)

20: Escalating naked conflict (3)

22: A place where you can spend the night in Turkey, and rise a Byzantine (5)

24: Arabs lost sneaky bird (9)

25: Chump first class, and very Italian (5)

26: Rows heard in vacation spots (5)

27: Accurate journalist demanded payment (7)

28: No spot for weather forecast before snow approaches (5)

29: One pointer concerning appetizer assortment (9)
Down
2: The unwell were first to be cut down.(7)

3: Note code with sorrow (7)

4: Betraying no emotion when Greek god has first expired (7)

5: Protest if youth shows warrant (7)

6: Threatened males got perfect scores (7)

7: Leggy swimmer shabbily cops out (7)

8: One-time philosophical teaching turned him to classics (13)

9: Police questioning a retiring toon under the table (13)

18: Hit essayist with flower (7)

19: Loathes key English exams (7)

20: Pay court to get military leader time on the missile range (7)

21: Others acquired skill to turn over a new leaf (7)

22: Eat late, taking in a floozie's new business (5-2)

23: Desires evil lives (7)




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