Crossword for Mon, 7/Jul/2008

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Across
1: Playwright rethinking copyright wrangle (4,7)

6: Feel sick from crack? (3)

8: Face-off stopped and relieved the pressure (5)

9: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)

10: Eights had to race again, we hear, concerning fish spawn. (2, 3)

11: . . . before the last apprentice is put in the ground (5)

13: Special delivery can erase a problem. (9)

14: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

16: Smithys workplace agreement not originally despicable, not totally! (5)

17: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)

18: Plan to return with woman (3)

19: The lowest point in a dire section (5)

20: Retreats in northeast streets (5)

22: Timely introduction of purifier into terribly poor air (9)

23: Nature photographer leans out (5)

24: Scheme I enter into direct (5)

25: Totally lacking a lofty plaything (3)

26: Reportedly remained sober (5)

28: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

29: A Hollywood star upset about paparazzi hub in crude social event (6,5)

Down
1: Requiring what sounds like massaging (7)

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

3: The Spanish derelict is too much for the church office holder (5)

4: Dry vegetarian, about to like this puzzle, perhaps? (6, 7)

5: Sailor Paul in oilcloth (9)

6: Watering devices found in run-down orange sheds (6, 5)

7: Found out in the beginning Gehrig pitched (7)

9: He explored star (7,6)

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

15: Produced hybrid green date (9)

18: Professional salesmen get up and grow rich (7)

21: Speak about bad deal in time for bargains (4,3)

23: African leader reversed stance on fabled writer (5)

27: Freshen the atmosphere (3)





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