Crossword for Tue, 15/Aug/2006

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Across
1: Immediately placed in an awkward situation (2,3,4)

4: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

8: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

11: Transfer back beat (5)

13: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

14: Flooded out and united (9)

15: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

17: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)

19: Bird and man going different ways (9)

23: Leaders of Orioles and Rangers stick in the dugout? (3)

24: Fancy brush? (5)

25: Be prepared with amnesties for truancy (11)

27: One politician's a brat (3)

28: Somehow it is clear and practical (9)
Down
2: Half disapprove of old king (3)

3: Corrected and finished after mid-December (7)

4: Appears that fine car is elevated (5,2)

5: and 15 Novel alternative excised from huge spits (5,12)

6: Unfortunate rot in republic is everlasting (13)

7: Then, one crisis ends after call is for healthy exercises (13)

9: Calculated average time (5)

10: Patchy trim for lace top is velvety (5)

12: Horrid, filthy lucre (5)

16: Fine that woman with little hesitation (5)

18: Eat or drink after the dollar improves (5,2)

19: Oddly, derros wont die in water! (5)

20: Five Gaelic poems (5)

21: Italian composer making endless noise, sir (7)

22: Approve a constant beast (5)

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




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