Crossword for Thu, 5/Nov/2009

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Across
1: Warning! The French return to take up weapons.(5)

4: Found jumbo rig in a teamster's parts (9)

7: Eskimo intuitions are half-developed (5)

8: Copy of corrupt IMac files (9)

11: Hoarded tiny bits of dryness (11)

13: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

14: Hold spellbound in the tenth rally (7)

15: Frost to cover the cake (3)

16: Control escape (3)

17: What's left when you burn the tree (3)

18: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

19: Ways of approaching a goddess without middlemen? (7)

22: Compete with life in France (3)

23: Exciting moment, actor as reviewer (11)

24: Undersized ones gripping coin, for starters (9)

26: Running back almost blew grand (5)

27: Characters producing exit with cross? (9)

28: 'Elfin' featured in 'Complete Enya' (5)
Down
1: The huntress about to be put in the Labyrinth to find the source of the thread. (7)

2: Finish suddenly, like an oboe? (1, 4, 2, 3, 3)

3: Arena performer's damage involving time and trouble (7)

4: Inactive side (3)

5: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

6: Thirteenth in a series, ER's about an Aussie racketeer who took repeated slams? (7)

9: Mousy girlfriend loses head and bellybutton (5)

10: Unfortunate rot in republic is everlasting (13)

12: Enticements disrupt mental rules (11)

17: Unfavourable publicity given to metrical composition (7)

18: Fill-in professional almost rewrote the column (5)

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

21: Doctor urges: 'Remove Roy's heart in operation' (7)

25: Call for help oddly stops (3)




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