Crossword for Tue, 4/May/2010

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Across
1: Do we find her wearing, chaps? (7)

5: Beverage store in heart of Cairo (7)

8: Doctor's swell operating (7)

10: Little island is leased (5)

12: See why a convertible is nonsense (7)

13: Tell a porky about top brass before broadcast up in West African republic (7)

14: Capture ten heading north (3)

15: Thus might florin study a silly timekeeper (3-3,5)

17: Support a deranged original (11)

20: Former name for joint audition (3)

22: Land filled with rain is OK (7)

24: Continual wind up by the French shortstop (7)

25: Laughable Democratic line-up (5)

26: First lost inability to drop by (7)

27: Curve interrupts any kind of chaos (7)

28: Rescind bad judge (7)

Down
1: Cretins destroyed tank (7)

2: Eccentric team owner is behind the times (4-5)

3: Not being particular, Xena and I moved to Connecticut (7)

4: Teen unclothes poorly dressed diners (13)

6: People of all races in wild bar I own (7)

7: I had left mule, finally, and right loafer (5)

9: Furious persons cry for the lure of the wilderness (4,2,3,4)

11: Discipline the heartless and agonize endlessly (5)

16: Fork prong holds passion fruit (9)

17: A sample of Frau Dietrich's song and dance (5)

18: Nice gal unusually well-behaved (7)

19: Refined women suppressing desires, principally for boys (7)

21: Poles in trouble with character from Greece (7)

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





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