Crossword for Sat, 27/Sep/2008

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Across
1: Designed dashing ten-ton pick-up (3-5,5)

9: Adjust to initially having little juice (5)

10: Unwilling to destroy train sets (9)

11: Studio sign initially obscured by swirling rain (2,3)

13: Navaho sing of Five Rings coming clean (6,3)

14: Cheer supporting blue automaton (5)

15: Feeble queens former partner is of feminine gender (6,3)

17: A bleater going kooky within ticker test (9)

19: One hundred-odd bits of bombs in some projectiles initially (5)

22: Article entered in it that is a point for silly remarks (9)

24: Substantial time at your patch (5)

25: Outline a principal overhaul (4,5)

27: Shine audio, $40? (5)

28: Free sex, lips in beer; it's beyond words (13)

Down
1: Al Fresco is to do our cooking (7)

2: We blame knitter for small woolly jumper (3-4)

3: Sort of uninitiated cheat (3)

4: Pate topping primarily honey and tamari? (3)

5: Small crewmen back rockets (5)

6: Be prepared with amnesties for truancy (11)

7: Clears up blemishes of dictators? (7)

8: Short line in letter back-fires (5)

12: Conclude a recitation off-key (11)

13: Where transport is provided by chopper (5)

16: Some of the best came stumbling south (5)

18: Ruin Aga; ruin Paraguay Indian (7)

20: Endless barbecue arranged for young carnivore (4,3)

21: Crackers in bulk? Yes (3-4)

22: In Howard's End - one has a passage here from Forster (5)

23: Freeze one mug filled with tea, essentially (3,2)

26: Pass mould (3)

27: Aliens set off (3)





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