Crossword for Wed, 17/Dec/2008

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Across
1: Organized fatso follows start of precise measurement including pound of seasoning (11)

7: Choose to take the top off (3)

9: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)

10: Bart's also cast as Big Bird (9)

11: Crew member is one in operating room (3)

12: Mom going topless--that's something else (5)

13: City that cowboys used to avoid (5)

14: Very bad, but permissible, to dismiss counsel, ultimately (5)

15: Giant fish, note, approaches Italian city (not capital) (9)

18: Catches misusing teen slang (9)

19: . . . before the last apprentice is put in the ground (5)

20: Siphon windy painter? (5)

22: Satanic personification in 'Anthem A-Gogo' (5)

24: You audibly ram partner (3)

25: Jump all over Kegler, say (9)

27: Nothing we have to pay (3)

28: Draw the knot (3)

29: Fashion term heartless: Feeling up Blossom (6-2-3)

Down
1: Come through, for the most part; at end of course, make a series of holes (9)

2: Having a specialized tax status, the result of a visit to an amateur tailor? (9)

3: With Starr finally out, Hyde's plan simply loses traction in a way (11)

4: Loudly scourge and expose oneself (5)

5: Perfume ingredient extracted from lamb ..... er, gristle (9)

6: Worthless even when recycled (3)

7: Nothing, nothing in shape (5)

8: A sample makes sense (5)

13: Seduce husband-to-be in parlor (7, 4)

15: Moldering, moldering panhandler? (4,5)

16: To restrain a small child that is not up. (2, 3, 4)

17: Spy pinched mere fragments of treaty (9)

20: Drank up in station (5)

21: A garden ornament makes men go mad (5)

23: De Bergerac hugged bird on return (5)

26: Inactive side (3)





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