Crossword for Wed, 24/Oct/2007

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Across
2: Bugging two items of personal adornment (9)

7: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

9: Scarf free tacos (5)

10: Catches misusing teen slang (9)

11: Actress Katherine, busybody, stifles nasty burp (7)

12: Save the forests regarding a series (7)

14: Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)

15: Harry, malign not our national cake! (9)

16: Acknowledging access (9)

20: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)

22: Spoke disrespectfully about university being obsolete (7)

23: Publish and be exhausted (4,3)

24: What incompetent repairman says to beggar? (9)

26: Some feudal assassin in Japan (5)

27: Anyway - no! (3)

28: Covering for the crown, he put instructions on an envelope (9)
Down
1: Tragic king smuggles the bondage material (7)

2: Yap about overdue wages (4,3)

3: Does the wandering hero duly hostess perplex? (7)

4: Bundy under English seabird thats forever! (7)

5: Abnormally mintier in the meantime (7)

6: Trap with hands? (3)

7: Beg like this - it's lawful (7)

8: Oriental festival on the first of November (7)

13: Invention to trick four into a stupor (11)

16: Stomach is disturbed, bad sign (7)

17: Madonna and child in stonework? (7)

18: State goddess gets in first (7)

19: Cancelled requirement to carry gun (7)

20: The basis of coffee remainders (7)

21: Take out former pamphlet? (7)

25: Equips for attacks (4)




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