Crossword for Wed, 25/Jul/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: April keeps providing material for a poet (5)

4: Creates nucleotide sequences, written about time after time (9)

8: A French number that is Country or Jazz (9)

9: Long time to the third of June (5)

10: Song about river, ocean, and lake (5)

12: Large glasses used on ships (9)

15: Telekinesis pinches Albanian coin (3)

17: Weapons to attack BS, involving way with words (11)

18: Upset top duo; I went and confessed (5,2,2,2)

19: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)

21: Castle ran out of ones forebears (9)

22: Wander around stove (5)

24: Alternative part of course (5)

25: Never out of order, a Kennedy is greatly admired (9)

27: Gray's line about young animals (9)

28: Idler, forced to exercise, could be this! (5)

Down
1: A revolutionary kind of tire contains a bit of carbide (7)

2: Roman light and gold found in Egyptian town. (5)

3: Sound of river crossing (3)

4: Mary-Jane crochets her Pop a jumper (11)

5: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

6: Moderately amphibian, for example, by the middle of the creek (2,1,6)

7: Vice exploits body cavities (7)

11: Sex drives don't initiate. Alibi? Two from Mexico. (7)

13: With Starr finally out, Hyde's plan simply loses traction in a way (11)

14: Hang around and look at that old Roman road (6)

16: I bang rock, disturbing snake (4,5)

18: Loves turncoat in extremely raunchy speechmaking (7)

20: Corrected and finished after mid-December (7)

23: Dating from birth in South African province (5)

25: 23% of Scandinavians backing leaders (3)

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





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