Crossword for Sat, 13/Apr/2013

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Across
1: An Indian princess fled east repeatedly (5)

4: Places and composition? (9)

8: Scolded, undergo assessment (7)

9: Coolest sort of cats (7)

10: Mineral springs start to moderate involuntary muscular contraction (5)

12: Dealers left out of catalogues (9)

13: Irish playwright livin soundly (5)

14: A state, see - one in America - one with an American capital (9)

17: This is truncated, or the end's off (9)

18: ...or stuffed with the alternative (5)

19: Very clever fish ain't at sea (9)

22: Short time for the Irish (5)

24: 'Inane' is not the same as 'inane' (7)

25: Sun god, after climbing once more, falls (7)

27: Drop in rent keeping me housed after last month (9)

28: Tender translator of runes (5)

Down
1: Note vehicle in picture puzzle (5)

2: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

3: Perhaps men sit and eat in a cafe (9)

4: Many sound prospects for prospectors (5)

5: Shiny flat-bottomed boats heading north (5)

6: Toss a hammer into a nuclear accelerator! (4,7)

7: Relieves each emergency service (5)

9: Moving round to booming (7)

11: Stimulant produced as choir paid off (11)

13: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

14: A king involved in the French connection (7)

15: Town's rail transport, not express? (9)

16: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

19: Directors said to be unamused. (5)

20: Tours river, merging initial impressions with remembered legends (5)

21: Principle unaffected by revolution (5)

23: Belated top-and-tailing to gladden one's heart (5)

26: Freshen the atmosphere (3)





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