Crossword for Fri, 6/Jul/2007

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Across
1: Preliminary form of conscription (5)

4: Private cabin, say, with space (9)

8: On second thoughts, rising fish glitter (7)

9: Sanctions mailed through fool (7)

11: Gained a hearing (3)

12: Worthless even when recycled (3)

13: Give back wares to retailer's layaway? (7)

14: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

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

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

21: Draw the knot (3)

22: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)

23: Vicar regularly outdated technology (1.1.1.)

25: Solo, the pilot rises? No way (3)

26: Records that could be hits (7)

27: With diverse amendments? (7)

28: The foreign policeman dropped me before the end of 'Absolutely Fabulous' (9)

29: Repair stitching that flares Ewok cloaks (5)
Down
1: Repudiating a pig that's eating out (9)

2: Double profit repeatedly (5,3,5)

3: Drunk held firmly (5)

4: Encase most of the Ashes wrongly (7)

5: A poor horse to run into a revised composition (7)

6: Pauses awkwardly after error but steadies nerves (5,2)

7: Body English for a billiards shot (5)

10: Let not passion sway philosophers (3-10)

16: Two detectives produce a cosmetic (3,6)

18: Dope turned to eat bun, starting off big (7)

19: Ring writers, each far from land (4,3)

20: Want verse included in poetry translation (7)

22: Nature photographer leans out (5)

24: Run over Martian explorer (5)




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