Crossword for Mon, 26/Mar/2007

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Across
1: Head of truly despicable fellow's horse (7)

5: Mountaineers drawing female inside hot springs (7)

9: Current about departure (2-5)

10: Tense, but otherwise flawless (7)

11: Kowtow endlessly, awfully neglectful (9)

12: Sing gist of laudatory ode loudly (5)

13: Defile broken seed box (9)

17: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

18: Grant loud colour (3)

19: Dumb moans cracked up investigator of complaints (9)

20: Drank up in station (5)

21: Conductor taking opera to Northern Ireland twice (9)

26: Oblique demand for a new church (7)

27: Mailer's reinterpreted depiction of the way things are (7)

28: Neuters wrestle majority of such neuters (7)

29: Be supplied with wings, over and above (7)
Down
1: Strap, though short, has hanger's heart (5)

2: Algerian city has grand musical instrument (5)

3: One who takes after beggarman (5)

4: Tramp and rake over green (5)

6: Archaeopterix? Maybe I err badly (5,4)

7: Name assumed to be no dupe's my disguise (9)

8: Got used to western city after it eliminated a lot of noise (7,2)

10: Lead around other green (7)

13: Dry out. Heated? Dry out (9)

14: The woman records family diplomas (9)

15: Stormy Toccata in A might be best music for one in this state. (9)

16: Early missionary or saint in a European setting (7)

22: Get rid of Bush (5)

23: Gather together for a church service. (5)

24: Homer's travail: 'I don't finish daily retreat.' (5)

25: Brand of cat food containing bird's head and feet (5)




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