Crossword for Sun, 31/May/2009

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Across
1: Believer with no head for bank job (5)

4: Took a load off awfully thin ledge (9)

8: Capture ten heading north (3)

9: Incomplete raw data lies in largely unexplored regions (4,7)

11: Emergency room stocks one sensitive organ (3)

12: Clown with a tail. (3)

13: Antelope found in oriental country.(5

14: In favour of court or university official (7)

17: List of members includes old chick's Dad (7)

18: Supplied new weapons for revolutionary dreamer (7)

19: Text, Inc., bankrupted, is gone (7)

20: Great stories about spice (5)

21: Revolves around a star. (3)

23: Behind and down and out (3)

24: Think at length about lost planet, comet (11)

25: Partial approval for eggs (3)

27: Pump witness (9)

28: Marry large bumpkin (5)
Down
1: Polygraph unexpectedly traps vandal (3)

2: Police questioning a retiring toon under the table (13)

3: Confuse cast (5)

4: Racing off without first resting (5)

5: An oral examination is not advised if one has this sort of foresight (4,5)

6: Expelled for being extrovert? (6,3)

7: I deem turds a regrettable necessity (11)

10: Tint bark clogs to provide foot support (8,5)

11: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

15: Aroused with short tutu, mesmeric midsection, and perfume (9)

16: Lada, for example, gets favourite treatment for VIPs (3,6)

21: Natural talent in opening measures of Franz Liszt melody (5)

22: Poverty-stricken, longing to rise up and get education (5)

26: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)




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