Crossword for Mon, 18/May/2009

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Across
1: Motor oil in garage contains disturbing sediment (7)

5: Ruler's wife appearing last month in Yemen's capital (7)

9: Cook small fish. (3)

10: Spider is natural at spinning (9)

11: Smokey's threat turning up deep in northern parts (5,4)

12: Yes. No. Maybe. Getting personal (5)

13: Delicate stem is enlightening (5,4)

15: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)

18: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

19: Hobo accepts employment at a home on the water (9)

21: Go over and bring harness-racing horse back (5)

24: Rev. Spooner suggests superior makes fast mail merge site (6,3)

25: Building for owl and treble changes? (4,5)

26: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

27: A brutal arrangement in rows and columns (7)

28: Loathes key English exams (7)
Down
1: Started frustrating us in real unwillingness to accept (7)

2: Top colleges have three miles of vine (3,6)

3: Flooded out and united (9)

4: Study how to endure (2,7)

5: Bit of a fight (5)

6: Technique for picking up new material? (5)

7: Is next to a total bust (5)

8: Kournikova deceives audio study (7)

14: Lecher in bed was full of hot air (9)

15: Creep lets another choose the candidate (9)

16: Migrating bass: known winter traveling hazard (9)

17: Circus performer in a European big top (7)

20: Soundly folds belt, does evening wear (7)

22: Notable piece of animation by English bishop (5)

23: Ring around edge of table leaf... (5)

24: A cow further down? (5)




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