Crossword for Thu, 3/Sep/2009

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Across
1: Defile broken seed box (9)

5: Lived with hind-end whip mark (5)

8: Nothing, absolutely (almost) nothing, disturbs cool guys' covers (9)

10: Break out tea, originally unmixed, from the back (5)

11: Draw out unknown performer before court (7)

13: Unknown little princess turning food with tongue (7)

15: Someone criticizing _End of Days_: 'Not so hot' (7)

16: Can't sue crazy lunatic (3,4)

17: Crime's delays? (4-3)

18: Booster involving risk brought to a halt early form of Voyager (7)

19: Awful riddle about many a swindler. (7)

21: Bomb compartment - note damaged weapon (7)

23: There's uranium in many a flower (5)

25: Sigh in the midst of plain neglect (9)

27: Adventurous gentleman's going west to Kentucky (5)

28: I may fall into pit in a remote country (9)
Down
2: Hear Native American appeal (3)

3: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

4: Comes last in frightfully easy assessment (5)

5: Pass mould (3)

6: Exegesis of clue an idiot misunderstood (11)

7: Make a deep impression, bound by ties initially thought to be most vexatious (9)

8: Nothing we have to pay (3)

9: Giant star, a Newton, gets allowances (7)

12: E.g., told story about cave-men (11)

14: Does the wandering hero duly hostess perplex? (7)

15: At first, Sonny and Cher having bizarre duel with one providing slots? (9)

16: Famous for being incompetent? (7)

20: Spanish wine from a city in Brazil getting German approval (5)

22: Child is to depart, finally (3)

24: Looks like an eyesore, sounds like an eyesore (3)

26: Trap with hands? (3)




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