Crossword for Thu, 28/Jan/2010

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Across
2: Rolling wave rolls into Rolling Stones song (3,3,4,3)

9: Leather factory or solarium? (7)

10: Number against great Rugby Union brothers producing a short work of fiction (7)

11: Uttered with a little respect, it becomes understood (7)

13: Fur seal frolicking around entrance to bay (5)

15: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

17: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

19: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)

20: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)

21: Made new, breaking away from tired ideas (5)

23: Go over the same ground? (7)

24: To fascinate a disagreeable female we turned in (7)

26: Snuggled in armchair, cute Bob (7)

28: Beat it and ran, for example, with Girl Scout ingredients (9,4)
Down
1: Making Athenian weaver drink an informal toast (7,2)

2: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

3: Show sadness when fruit gets cut out (4,1,4)

4: Non-clerical song (3)

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

6: First Lady's vocal projections (5)

7: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

8: Religious man rumoured to have been taken in by a whopper such as this. (5)

11: Fancied whos coming to dinner, we hear (7)

12: Bend in Pennsylvania court case related to revered founder (11)

14: Scolded, undergo assessment (7)

16: Saving from hell in the pop-shop? (9)

18: Recycled output for larger hollow tree within (4,5)

21: Puzzle over the end of soccer coach (5)

22: Throw mud at information (5)

25: Escalating naked conflict (3)

26: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)

27: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)




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