Crossword for Sat, 13/Dec/2008

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Across
1: Bunch of devotees arouse group (3,4)

5: Hack gets brainwave to start with: ripen green veggie (7)

8: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)

9: Hang back, keeping right next to person buying a jumper (11)

11: Gun I've cleaned, finally, and made operative again (7)

13: Old communist uprising described in distorted yell (7)

14: Long Rhine sequence in Wagner's work (9)

15: Gained a hearing (3)

17: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

18: Deranged person ate tongue (9)

22: Hold torn veil held by busy worker (7)

23: After the legal thing, give thanks to God and go after the vermin again (7)

24: Seduce husband-to-be in parlor (7, 4)

26: One politician's a brat (3)

27: Sty? (7)

28: Workers are in giant red star (7)

Down
1: Savage welcomes United Nations' interment (7)

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

3: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

4: Tamer starting to bother pilot, ultimately? (7)

5: Cretins destroyed tank (7)

6: Weapons to attack BS, involving way with words (11)

7: Mostly yearning for headache remedy (7)

10: Stir outspoken 3-down resident, usually (5)

12: Trashy dime novel about American sex symbol who's not all there? (5,2,4)

16: Bury with arms and legs but no head (5)

17: Sack attendant taking ill. (7)

18: Record unusually green ornamental centrepiece (7)

19: Pole lashed with rag to the arbour (7)

20: New England river flowing with less constraint (7)

21: Half-finished meal precedes my look back at sacred mountain (7)

25: Bumped into yours truly at junction (3).





Solution (Reversed)
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