Crossword for Thu, 29/Dec/2011

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Across
1: Tossed sixth of cookies in class (5)

4: Like Nadia or Olga, my acting's affected (9)

9: He is found in the alloy described (5)

10: Delicate stem is enlightening (5,4)

11: Thirteen broken adzes repaired (6,5)

12: Polygraph unexpectedly traps vandal (3)

13: Examine good-looking man? Yes! (5)

15: A short bird-man climbed in Africa (7)

17: Dance to old home recording (3 4)

19: Belonging to you, is getting to me, Herb (5)

21: Throw out faulty nib (3)

23: Inspects old radical for a moment (5, 6)

25: 16-down Redundant RE question, like derr (2,3,4,1,8)

26: Feed all but the first stranger (5)

27: Plantation divided by one true sign of trouble (4,5)

28: Challenged Ruby after district attorney (5)
Down
1: Opening building in church grounds in Sulawesi (7)

2: Common third power as a soup base (5,4)

3: Old communist uprising described in distorted yell (7)

4: Icy turning, for example, on top (5)

5: Arsenals periodicals (9)

6: All for naught, perhaps; not many upset (7)

7: Without a rabbi a long depression is hard to bear (5)

8: He went off to Nod, taking second-rate cottage (5)

14: Shock with exclamations while mounting horse (9)

16: Robins knitting done by row (3,6)

18: Piece of mosaic a Greek god put up (7)

19: Wrestlers grip held. Too bad (7)

20: Finished holding second half of tour; it's lasted (7)

21: Lawyer keeps it short (5)

22: Keep back a missing ingredient for gunpowder (5)

24: Measure of heat in the empty room (5)




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