Crossword for Sat, 27/Dec/2008

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Across
1: Acid destroyed brace (5)

4: Cabaret, nearly empty, takes prize (9)

9: Diminutive fellow had a big job in the final. (5)

10: Evil colleague, for example, breaking in contrary to law (9)

11: I tailored radical written opinion (9)

12: Allow an attempt to release (3,2)

14: Bugs emerge in a zoo (9)

15: Pick a wrong angle (5)

16: Water plants used in informal Gaelic gardens (5)

19: Can patriot make paver dither? (4-5)

23: One who regrets following initial tendencies is increasingly sincere (5)

24: I may fall into pit in a remote country (9)

26: Coach mens school of North American Indians (9)

27: Shorebirds' tricks (5)

28: Observed, yet seen so poorly (3,4,2)

29: Do the young work for long? (5)
Down
1: I'll scream, 'Gangway!' (5)

2: No, I save up for escape (7)

3: Threw out long bit of dried up meat (7)

5: American boxer entering kind of club in Middle East region (7)

6: Filipino's persistent follower no neutral (7)

7: Head is about to allow artists colour range (7)

8: Attempt test (3)

10: 'There the woman is!' exclaimed in a less friendly way (5)

13: There was little weight in the announcement. (5)

14: Imported food injected with nitrogen (5)

17: Good eater has more gut upsets (7)

18: A tendency to bungle and cry, 'Near upset!' (7)

19: Sparks from auto backing up over tree (7)

20: Chump getting past in chasm (5)

21: Pair of witnesses' mostly smooth transfer may end with Tony Soprano, possibly (7)

22: Between Virginia and Los Angeles nothing has flavour (7)

25: Artist back on the issue of causing inflamation. (5)

26: Mediterranean leaves unfashionable coins? (3)




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