Crossword for Thu, 12/Feb/2009

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Across
2: Hope and Crosby going up and down (7)

7: Tender command (3)

9: Machine spindle starting to mistime; also about to begin labouring (7)

10: Sterne's novel settlers (7)

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

13: Grant loud colour (3)

14: European King's threat reported (5)

16: Trickster waits for jams (9)

17: Someone in favour of wine in jolly good surroundings (9)

18: Children nicely holding back secret (5)

19: Going after the final piece of puzzle for a very long time (3)

20: Beware of these they show the funny side of the month! (4,2,5)

24: Nothing virile about British actor (7)

25: Play has 10 miniature scenes (7)

27: I am reported to leer (3)

28: Biggest rat's leg is broken (7)
Down
1: Attract fill-in worker by end of August (5)

2: Explosions!!! (5)

3: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)

4: I had been at the front, and retired (5)

5: Smuggler participating in arms race? (9)

6: Be prepared with amnesties for truancy (11)

7: Composer found in a red hot oven? (9)

8: Dotty rides around corrals with someone who passes out (9)

12: Stimulant produced as choir paid off (11)

14: Gets behind in cooking Creole dish (9)

15: Dear spouse that was thoughtful (9)

16: Authoritative feline vet, perhaps, spreading cure (9)

21: The instruction for derelicts is inclusive (5)

22: Expose to heat in opening of red-hot kiln (5)

23: Learn of teacher's initial courage (5)

26: Nothing we have to pay (3)




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