Crossword for Mon, 24/Sep/2007

1
 
 
 
2
 
 
 
3
 
 
 
4
 
5
 
 
 
6
 
 
 
7
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8
 
 
 
 
 
9
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11
 
 
 
 
 
12
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13
 
 
 
14
 
15
 
16
 
 
 
17
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19
 
 
 
20
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23
 
24
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Across
1: Baseball team against exhibiting high principals in old Assyrian capital (7)

5: He wrote about life in the woods. You read mostly inside (7)

8: I shall be sick! (3)

9: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)

11: Have bananas now (3)

12: Hoarded tiny bits of dryness (11)

13: One may be a very long time (3)

16: A cut back in brightly colored southern pastries (9)

18: Unwilling to destroy train sets (9)

19: Child, bask by the sound (3)

21: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

24: Child is to depart, finally (3)

25: A favourite car of Seattle natives. (11)

26: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

27: Resident's web terminal missing (7)

28: Heart of delicatessen, certainly, is meat (7)
Down
1: Most successful divers can be quite obnoxious (7)

2: Common thread uniting New York and half of London (5)

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

4: How imprisoned labourers showed friendship? (4,5)

5: Six points making a case for one in good shape (5)

6: Small holes around big shoes, trainers and clogs initially create stumbling blocks (9).

7: Happy faces disturb economist (9)

10: Appreciation without hot water containers (5)

14: Under no circumstances should you take a worker from a bean-counter following his little number. (2, 7)

15: Next to erector is a witness (9)

17: Animal or container in tree (9)

18: Silent, cat backs away from it (5)

20: Famous for being incompetent? (7)

22: Guard enthralled by desperately urgent sad song (5)

23: Many sound prospects for prospectors (5)

24: 'Colossus' artist loses interest (5)




Solution (Reversed)
U
A
E
R
O
H
T
H
E
V
E
N
I
N
M
B
O
E
O
Y
O
T
U
O
C
S
T
N
E
L
A
T
L
L
I
A
T
T
E
D
E
O
S
N
O
I
T
A
R
D
Y
H
E
D
N
W
O
K
C
C
A
M
S
N
O
E
L
O
P
A
N
B
N
O
E
N
E
O
D
Y
O
N
O
S
S
R
E
S
I
S
T
A
N
T
O
C
T
C
A
T
O
T
L
L
U
B
D
N
A
K
C
O
C
A
I
O
P
I
N
O
I
B
U
T
D
R
I
B
R
E
D
N
U
H
T
L
A
E
N
G
E
N
E
C
N
E
S
S
E
E
N
R
E
T
N
I