Crossword for Sat, 23/Feb/2008

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Across
1: Notable piece of animation by English bishop (5)

4: Ideas about teaching assistant marginalia (9)

9: Opening bet nearly winning at rummy? (9)

10: Child is to depart, finally (3)

11: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

12: Hordes of unions' speakers (5)

14: Rod set up sweetheart to run away together (5)

15: You audibly ram partner (3)

16: Exchange concealed proprietary knowledge (5,6)

17: Hostile warning: one man has captured the queen (11)

19: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

21: Going back in where GI trapped predator (5)

22: Woodland deity posed six months (5)

23: Direct object (3)

24: Half disapprove of old king (3)

25: Deceptive publicity and labor is thrown a curve (9)

27: Lots of risk in deal with lawyer (9)

28: Grill when involved in corruption (5)
Down
1: Unfinished book carried in case last in line? (7)

2: Plain and simple giblet stuffing (7)

3: Throw out faulty nib (3)

4: I see marks on jumbled party favors (11)

5: Draw a stomach uprising (3)

6: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)

7: Ring twice in ramshackle tudor having no roof (7)

8: Most moving parts of rivers add estuaries (7)

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

13: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

17: Place to clean up bit of trash in club meeting area (7)

18: Boat in which poor crew are caught between port and starboard. (7)

19: Dancer Duncan is a road protestor (7)

20: Thrash Elia a second time (7)

25: Pate topping primarily honey and tamari? (3)

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




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