Crossword for Fri, 6/Jul/2012

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Across
1: Interest in a revolutionary activist's broadcast (5)

4: Cry at nothing and hope to be only slightly cowardly? (9)

8: Leon's accepting prohibition from country (7)

9: Eat after hollow enclosure is discovered (5,2)

10: How a diver might marry (4,3,6)

11: Short time for the Irish (5)

14: Dine and drink with fan (9)

16: Hint at irregularity of annuities (9)

19: Pitch out heartlessly the cards. (5)

20: Dangerous undertaking skiers in busy S bend (5,8)

24: Ancient historian understood America (7)

25: I hear idle, I see peaceful and happy (7)

27: Blowing siren over corruption on the job (2-7)

28: Continues wild parties after inauguration (5)
Down
1: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

2: Caress one grand puzzlemaster (5)

3: Brand on utilitarian stocking: 'Krispy Kreme' (5)

4: Americans look for no revolution (7)

5: Canoe lost in sea (5)

6: Detective negotiated nicer post (9)

7: Healers swear by the cases of the little river horse. (11)

9: Flower shop nosh about $41 (5)

10: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)

12: Shortens break, going back to arouse with comedy bit (9)

13: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)

15: Cull out from top ten (3)

17: Starts to actually believe you survived snake pit (5)

18: Hard to define evil, use 'gone astray' (7)

21: Pan given back by pastry taster (5)

22: Uncharacteristically, Dickenson pens uplifting romantic ballad (5)

23: New York island is hellish without boundaries (5)

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




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