Crossword for Tue, 13/May/2008

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Across
1: Swarms all over fashionable gatherings (7)

6: Englishman opening a can to dine at home (3,2)

8: Ten Canoes galled Chinese (9)

9: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

11: Cook, sorta! (5)

12: Repack? Foe repacks, but gives nothing away. (9)

14: Focus of heroic move inside (9)

17: Choose to take the top off (3)

18: Half disapprove of old king (3)

19: Harsh taxes on certain salts (9)

20: Al's gamble on outcome of sports (4,5)

23: Grow, taking head of iceberg to show again (5)

24: A heron regrets losing its wings (5)

26: Mata Hari flitting around eastern part of old Palestine (9)

27: A Muslim leader's energy efficiency ratio as a Muslim leader (5)

28: Woody is to eviscerate Human Resources, that is (7)
Down
1: Unfortunate rot in republic is everlasting (13)

2: Support a deranged original (11)

3: Wanting lean candidates in favour (5,4)

4: Breaking promise, strip back nightie (9)

5: Guarantee limit (5)

6: Composer employed in hotel garage (5)

7: Draw the knot (3)

10: Canadian water ordered for regal tea-break (5,4,4)

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

15: Article about reckless flogging (9)

16: Restricting agent's rant about ill-conceived trade (9)

21: Swamp creature resting tail on a rocky outcrop (5)

22: Kitty's way of saying loudly, 'I hurt'? (5)

25: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)




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