Crossword for Tue, 30/Sep/2008

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Across
1: Sickens up, reels with disgust (7)

4: California owl sounds like being in a partnership of sorts? (7)

8: No right to secret desire (5)

9: Plunges about in State's evidence (5)

10: Small piece of fish (3)

11: Everlasting variety for Peter and Paul (9)

12: Correspondence with meal I cooked (5)

13: Unfathomable letters from Lamb, say (7)

14: Get zany, swimming in exotic river (7)

15: Wanderer features in ones best adage (7)

18: Be embraced by a giant like the Dalai Lama (7)

20: Again, make fast about dead heat (5)

21: I can still hit a little bit (9)

24: Direct object (3)

25: A vine sometimes can seem green (5)

26: First lady in France is a hot number (5)

27: Undesirable Mark is worn out, holding me back (7)

28: Try to deny yod is a vowel intrinsically (7)
Down
1: Go over the highlights of a racehorse's comeback (5)

2: Want verse included in poetry translation (7)

3: Flower inducing forgetfulness in vaudeville theater (5)

4: Ratty cavalier redressed in proper horseman's uniform. (7, 6)

5: A former Middle-Eastern leader who is reasonable in discussion (7)

6: Auto manufacturer meeting a lieutenant in 'The Ancient Mariner'? (3,4)

7: Junior officer finds badly burnt seal (9)

9: Repeated note to help player? (6-7)

13: Electrical units losing energy . . . and . . . and . . . (9)

16: Choose one chrysanthemum; it's the best that can be done (7)

17: Mrs. Roosevelt East, Trim, Oregon (7)

19: Manservant returns at four in Mideast city (3 4)

22: Very loud intrusion spoiled its cross words (5)

23: Pointer is slender, lacking tip (5)




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