Crossword for Wed, 25/Jun/2008

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Across
1: Get used to being in Treasury Department with a secure job (7)

5: Devastation when head is cut off before a party - it may be eaten as first course (7)

9: Reveals fatness I'm developing (9)

11: Host seems clever, off and on (5)

12: Fifty are returning after the last hemp mixture has a short life cycle (9)

13: Does loose change forfeit worn tail for false head? (5)

14: Struggle with pieces of green apple (7)

16: Lightweight cat (5)

17: Lived with hind-end whip mark (5)

19: Quickly assemble dry pail (7)

21: Chip is describing rare bird call (5)

22: A woman loved what a Roman is content about (9)

25: Goes bad and accepts never-ending abuses of the system (5)

26: Ale curing outbreak of nervous pain (9)

27: Enormous lady may damage clothes (7)

28: Eccentric French composer (a base thief to his family) creates a cloying atmosphere (7)
Down
1: Site of ASU school near Tuesday's storm (7)

2: Excerpt from selection in 'The Ultimate Life of a Cat,' perhaps (5)

3: Sailor offers thanks to the British resistance (3)

4: Vicious return to professional serve reveals the inequality. (13)

6: Good place for sniper for fill? (9)

7: Gold cot in rummage sale (7)

8: Rhyme in Old English to run the show (7).

10: Pal teased about crazy snack food (6,7)

15: One pointer concerning appetizer assortment (9)

17: Furniture style improper for formality (7)

18: Witty remark, for example, about constant batterer (7)

20: Chief among any political disorder (7)

23: Old role for paintings that trick the eye (2,3)

24: English measure of qualifications? (5)




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