Crossword for Fri, 7/Sep/2007

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Across
1: Pathological bumbler holds a record (5)

4: Little Digger pens sailboat drawing sheets (6,3)

8: Road leading into dismal swamp (5)

9: Destroying Bibles, I'm left without drinks (7)

11: The time before the first woman (3)

12: Put hot cocoa out for someone glued to the TV (5,6)

13: Send back gangster's gun to get ID (3)

14: Lived with hind-end whip mark (5)

15: Bush, senior (5)

16: Kitty's way of saying loudly, 'I hurt'? (5)

18: Reportedly, guys take advantage of lists (5)

21: Odds of niece being born (3)

22: Drunkard turns up near beach, reversing new habit, to sleep fitfully (4,3,4)

23: A representative may be a scamp (3)

25: Easily bent out of shape? So smile, silly (7)

26: Spanish wine from a city in Brazil getting German approval (5)

27: Slippery deck spots are on either side (9)

28: A small rig is something worth having (5)
Down
1: Row (but not in front) and get mixed up (5)

2: Barmaid slipped, leading to a spectacular disaster. (6, 7)

3: Threatened males got perfect scores (7)

4: Law, say, constraining trade union leaders (7)

5: The final deep depression embraces the descriptive term (7)

6: Boo, in case it's the end of the train (7)

7: Conversation to completely stop about scrubs (9)

10: Brando rinsing out identification tools (8,5)

13: Small green vegetable found in automat, illogically (9)

17: Excitedly saw open arms (7)

18: Part of the USA obscured by mist and dew? (7)

19: These often go with crosses but they mean nothing really! (7)

20: Drink produced as grain ferments (7)

24: Factory to unveil cheap lantern part (5)




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