Crossword for Mon, 6/Oct/2008

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Across
1: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

3: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

9: Grasp a rag usefully wrapping vegetable (9)

10: Disturbance is the robbery (5)

11: Audible attempt to get clique cut in three (7)

13: Got excited by unusual tulip (3,2)

14: He was called to defend complicated Fed rate (7)

15: Took hold of the note and tore it (7)

17: Mobster at heart, presently I'll be carrying expensive pistol on hip (7)

18: Atom bombs to begin spewing ketchup ingredients (7)

20: Jumped for something extremely loose-fitting (5)

23: Providing cash for pleasure - many a mixed drink! (7)

25: Spread out and be quiet in murder (5)

26: Stager Reg transposed extra organ (9)

28: Ever-practical, Mr. Vader keeps own little piggy (4-2-5)

29: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)
Down
1: A carriage returned in pieces (5)

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

3: Most capacious, having little and small in great combination (7)

4: Get into the archeology scene. (3)

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

6: City train bears the woman's name (5)

7: A simpleton, folksy Ugandan leader is followed by an Occupational Therapist (5)

8: Having one's feet opposed, as in Australia. (9)

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

14: End is close, doctor surreptitiously revealed (9)

16: Favorite obsession, love touching undergarment (9)

19: Borderland has acting ruler (7)

21: Shining silver base (5)

22: Test limits of sexologist in assignation (5)

24: As one lacking a vice (5)

27: Vicar regularly outdated technology (1.1.1.)




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