Crossword for Mon, 20/Jul/2009

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Across
1: War or piecemeal missile (5)

4: Sarcastic critic, alas drunk, missing bit of comedy (9)

8: Trap with hands? (3)

9: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

11: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

13: One later enters, like, with matching sides (11)

15: Rise above fad, carrying recycled cans (9)

16: Get rid of Bush (5)

17: Makes empty noises behind listener. (5)

19: Outfit in which one walks when outside the ship? (9)

22: Wizards covered in liquor and beer...it might be for charity (7, 4)

23: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

24: Clearances for the first couple of characters to find answers. (11)

26: Mink, for one, may fly when theres trouble (3)

27: Noted Methodist almost turned up here, not there (9)

28: There is no commoner old coin (5)
Down
2: Control escape (3)

3: It's news broadcast for a seer (7)

4: Surprisingly tautest act (7)

5: Initially tied with us, downhill racer was in contention? (7)

6: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

7: Something good made by mini drink packer! (6,7)

8: Canadian water ordered for regal tea-break (5,4,4)

10: Singers in a special Tosca production (5)

12: Help to lift weight - this might show how (7)

14: Our tree worked out how to send out in another way (7)

18: 18-across Buyers should check this run around shops (5,5)

19: Encase most of the Ashes wrongly (7)

20: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)

21: Thirteenth in a series, ER's about an Aussie racketeer who took repeated slams? (7)

25: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)

26: Chain some; cuff objectors (3)




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