Crossword for Tue, 4/Aug/2009

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Across
1: Missed hoax set up to trap Sunday drunk outside saloon entrance (4,5,2)

6: Perform part of play (3)

8: Animated lass in set is Snow White (9)

10: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

11: Icy turning, for example, on top (5)

12: Like Nadia or Olga, my acting's affected (9)

13: Dizzy Ben is a playwright (5)

15: Shock with exclamations while mounting horse (9)

17: Merry-go-round made from a vehicle with wake-up lamps in front (9)

18: Principle unaffected by revolution (5)

19: Extravagant, but terribly organised (9)

21: Ordered hoop to conserve mass and energy (5)

24: I shall be sick! (3)

25: Tick off and send back into custody to conceal rip-off (9)

27: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

28: Barque, for one, is a trio-tutor (5-6)
Down
1: Airborne without a trace of fear, reclining in plane (5)

2: Uneven ships cable made from hemp (5)

3: On your feet! (8,5)

4: Trap with hands? (3)

5: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

6: Something useful - like a matching collection? (5)

7: Ditch a worker is cutting (9)

9: A little sports car, let to harassed Southern belle (8,5)

12: Hang back, keeping right next to person buying a jumper (11)

13: Icon got in by mistake under an assumed name (9)

14: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

16: Have bananas now (3)

20: Unscripted part for head librarian (2,3)

22: Centre of diamond is shrouded in fog (5)

23: Where transport is provided by chopper (5)

26: Frost to cover the cake (3)




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