Crossword for Thu, 3/May/2007

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Across
1: Upset bee lit out from underground imprisonment (9)

5: Headless rodent left by bird (5)

7: Mend a split state (11)

9: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)

11: I sent out a little map (5)

12: Shot at lure? (7)

13: The star of 'Ellen' has at folks with substandard morals (11)

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

16: Choose to take the top off (3)

18: Girl mostly into turning inside out - it's never ending! (11)

22: Diverting a dupe with wrong input (7)

24: Chip is describing rare bird call (5)

25: Lick up pal (3)

26: Bright-sounding agenda touches on heavyweight legend (5,6)

27: It comes back to the levy (5)

28: Snarling assistant to devil worshipers (9)
Down
1: Tidy up and clean floor finally and decisively (4,3,3,3)

2: Financial ink flowing in boom (7)

3: Fashionable fragrance, fundamentally (2,7)

4: Hex's inclination: going topless (7)

5: Ensemble originally formed with ocarina, cello, theremin, euphonium, and tabla (5)

6: King of the sun and new moon (7)

8: Old Mongoloid to farewell religious leader (5)

10: Bugler to stand playing in fields of war (13)

14: Young boy capturing us with snapshot, initially incurring mistrust (9)

17: Shout it out loud - alternatively, mutter quietly (7)

19: Mechanical parts preserved in green gin ester (7)

20: Fortunate brave gets a late start (5)

21: For motivation we are led by a Demon and Frog. (7)

23: Hand out Kleenex, wiping away a bit of tears (5)




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