Crossword for Thu, 6/Mar/2008

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Across
1: Overcome by disappointment from the rare bonk going awry (11)

7: How to eat the heart of marsupial (3)

9: She plays in a small enclosure on one street (7)

10: Incredibly stoned, taking Intro to Math final (7)

11: Fishing equipment for MacGill? (7)

12: Free up fuel distribution; its appalling (7)

13: Write to Dee about American the French roughed up (7)

14: Apricot tart contains cheese (7)

18: 'Naked Gun' actor prepares to be dubbed in (in soundtrack) (7)

20: Catch up before old crooner talking blather (7)

21: Little woman at her lowest point (7)

24: Red Cross is putting on bazaar (7)

25: Discompose each half of turbines (7)

26: Reverse engineer, at last, recipe for dish best served cold? (7)

27: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

28: Quite put out, doctor axes red tape (11)

Down
2: Attacking garland, certain it was not tied down (2,7)

3: Every other starlit fish starting search for little percussion instruments (9)

4: Went to bed embarrassed about backward custom (7)

5: Sounds like one having requirements for masseur (7)

6: Drain off lowest part (5)

7: Upset expression of surprise follows failure of comic take-off (5)

8: Ring around edge of table leaf... (5)

11: Posed in glossy fabric (5)

15: Motorist to welcome hailing? (3-6)

16: That may be reversed, but his son sits around pointlessly. (4,2,3)

17: Hangs tough, concealing apprehension (5)

19: A short bird-man climbed in Africa (7)

20: Candy, Rod, Gump all confused (7)

21: Boy gripping top of pine tree (5)

22: Cheyenne Mountain installation produces radon mixture (5)

23: Miss West soaks up ultraviolet for that striking shade of purple (5)





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