Crossword for Thu, 22/Jul/2010

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Across
1: Cast ballots, with five to back Edward (5)

4: Gin and tonic's third gulped by person arising (9)

9: Forks over wire customized for special explosives (9)

10: First confession left the listener feeling no doubt (5)

11: Sob wildly and preserve secret (7)

13: Mean years following vow (7)

14: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

15: Ballet producer - he'd a vigil choreographed (9)

17: Consequence of upsetting thug or two (9)

19: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)

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

23: Awful bed lace causes fiasco (7)

24: There's uranium in many a flower (5)

25: Shortened lingerie test sexual attraction (9)

27: Family member suppresses a temptation to go head-to-foot naked (2,7)

28: Muse about weed on top of Olympus (5)
Down
2: Believes in harnessing hydrogen for sources of propulsion (7)

3: Our Foreign Minister embraced German, and in his own country (4,5)

4: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)

5: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)

6: There was little space in the satanic heresy. (5)

7: A drop of the hard stuff? (7)

8: Dry vegetarian, about to like this puzzle, perhaps? (6, 7)

9: Holder of strange ritual of troll (5,8)

12: One providing funds for last one in debt (7)

13: Embarrassed when a graduate took off (7)

16: Food (trace of nourishment) wrapped in skin in Scottish city (9)

18: An Asian making money carrying a letter from Greece (7)

20: Apricot tart contains cheese (7)

22: Famous pianist's inclination for vocalizing (5)

25: See, you are a cad. (3)

26: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)




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