Crossword for Thu, 20/Sep/2007

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Across
1: Corias crazy for last pirate (7)

5: One watching over entrance returns identifying label (7)

8: One who regrets having left leader (5)

9: Cutthroat congressman's back in lifeless Ohio primary (9)

11: Attempt test (3)

12: Exciting moment, actor as reviewer (11)

14: Warning sound in audio of Jodie Foster movie (5)

15: Terribly versatile family (9)

18: Who smuggled the odd athlete? (3,6)

19: Mousy girlfriend loses head and bellybutton (5)

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

22: Perform part of play (3)

23: Captures openings (9)

26: Write Dorothy's aunt into the motif (5)

27: Color red surrounds letters on a Cardinal's cap for all-out player (7)

28: Problems involving Rhode Island clergy (7)
Down
1: Heartsore, Kate raced back to embrace the custodian (9)

2: Four runners usually talk about YMCA in the morning (5,4)

3: Sadly curtail urge for land cultivation (11)

4: Road without a pole (4)

5: Leave sorcerer to bible-basher (9)

6: Draw the knot (3)

7: Imported food injected with nitrogen (5)

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

13: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)

15: Ill-conceived encore run for Edward VIII, say (9)

16: Six strange, strange winegrowers (9)

17: Leaving no trail, Penny and Les hid in the middle of Sussex (9)

20: Pass mould (3)

21: Skin gash exists (5)

24: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

25: How to eat the heart of marsupial (3)




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