Crossword for Thu, 14/Mar/2013

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Across
2: Drive away roofing material before farmhouse becomes a target area (8,5)

8: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

9: Worried about being ribbed. (7)

10: Anyway - no! (3)

12: Rev. Spooner says 'The person massaging Reagan is illiterate' (3-6)

13: Some feudal assassin in Japan (5)

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

18: Mild guess: I die reassembling a nasty weapon (6,7)

20: Herb talked about the fourth dimension (5)

22: Questionable act raises link between stories (9)

24: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)

26: Fruit is found in waterfalls (7)

27: One may be a very long time (3)

28: Grave study: code-breaking? (13)
Down
1: New Testament stories about gifts (7)

2: Mere chance of depression interrupting peace (11)

3: Eccentric bad footballer (3-6)

4: Excessively sentimental dunderhead in the river (5)

5: Infamous Ms. Spelling: 'Nothing's within reason!' (9)

6: Hazardous emanation from river used by a crime boss (5)

7: No one told sister (3)

11: Long time to the third of June (5)

14: I see marks on jumbled party favors (11)

16: Tempory respite about the goal. (9)

17: Foolishly I air spats of beekeepers (9)

18: On return, for example, put back costume (3-2)

19: I left terminus, breaking a bone (7)

21: Rue loss of rare bird (5)

23: Little Mermaid's voice overhead (5)

25: Sounds like a wolf on the coast (3)




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