Crossword for Sat, 21/Oct/2006

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Across
1: Rolling wave rolls into Rolling Stones song (3,3,4,3)

6: Want verse included in poetry translation (7)

10: True side (5)

11: Greek city - in the Adriatic or in Thessaly (7)

12: Language making a comeback in modern Italy (5)

14: Wounded bats put back to bed (7)

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

18: Hear Native American appeal (3)

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

21: Notes spent in Germany (5)

22: Make money and set out to be serious (7)

24: Many sound prospects for prospectors (5)

27: Hold torn veil held by busy worker (7)

28: Opening event in cruise: Iran art display (7-6)

Down
1: Simpletons at home with no money (9)

2: Penniless meal is fantastic (5)

3: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

4: Clown with a tail. (3)

5: Englishman opening a can to dine at home (3,2)

7: Sometimes they mischievously spray-paint footwear, making the top violet (7)

8: Boxer Max returned, holding heroin, for treatment (5)

9: Give in and offer up (5)

13: Flower, large one, set up outside (5)

14: Navigate by terse directions (5)

15: Watch, say (7)

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

19: Part of book covers ballpark legends, using reliable background sources (5)

20: Wicker basket a North American Indian left (5)

21: Scrimmage as Confederate general introduces himself to Tarzan? (5)

23: Pitchers were transported south (5)

25: Bespectacled dwarf bringing nothing to capital (3)

26: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)





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