Crossword for Thu, 15/Mar/2007

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Across
1: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)

6: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)

8: Most poignant lament is written in French (7)

10: Lauds professor's initial salary increases (7)

11: Cajole important person having below-average grade at end of June (7)

14: Some Oriental craft for old U.S. President Eric (7)

16: Little Digger pens sailboat drawing sheets (6,3)

17: Bored after meals? (3,2)

18: Scrabble piece having D and a diacritical mark (5)

19: Fullness from meal I'd put out (9)

21: Saves and secures stranger (7)

22: Also, pay somewhat slowly (7)

24: Broken home rid of beneficiarys condition (7)

25: They occupy the space of many workers (7)

28: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)

29: Ruby ran off to marry after a couple of events came to light again (11)

Down
1: Out of line like London gardens (5)

2: Fiction position (3)

3: Consumed and digested tea (3)

4: Drained journo covers polly deadlock (7)

5: Fancied poem composed in comfort (5,2,4)

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

7: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

9: Belgian port getting rid of an idiot (5)

12: Girl mostly into turning inside out - it's never ending! (11)

13: Bobbed beneath in playful attempt to drown journalist. (6, 5)

15: Abundant specimen doffing cap (5)

16: Woodland deity posed six months (5)

19: Medusa's sadly taken for granted (7)

20: Factory to unveil cheap lantern part (5)

23: Ideas educate to reveal that things have relaxed.(5)

24: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)

26: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

27: Unappealing environment for a snooze (3)





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