Crossword for Tue, 8/Jan/2008

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Across
1: Material featured in 'Sudden Impact' (5)

4: Curry contains gentle essence now (9)

8: Mostly, you drink with mystic (5; var.)

9: They keep servants (9)

11: Fool to join recital (3)

12: Conclude a recitation off-key (11)

13: All the cards, plus cards held by ship workers (4-5)

15: As one lacking a vice (5)

16: Wooded hillock forming part of Arthur's territory (5)

19: Slip bottom off, try for strong attraction (9)

21: Bobbed beneath in playful attempt to drown journalist. (6, 5)

23: Feel sick from crack? (3)

25: In a dance, little do plenty (9)

26: Muse about weed on top of Olympus (5)

27: Catches misusing teen slang (9)

28: Faith in Osiris, lamentably (5)
Down
1: Year inside for undone expert (5)

2: Its near the tradesmens entrance after dark (5)

3: Borderland has acting ruler (7)

4: Edible root on grapevine equals 200 milligrams (5)

5: Recreating the past, USS Enterprise finally turned up (9)

6: Gee, Etna exploding can't be more than twenty years old (7)

7: Dee Star danced in two clubs recently (9)

10: Fancy decoration thats cool on the surface? (5)

13: Dry out. Heated? Dry out (9)

14: Turn in diet at night (9)

17: Noise heard and used in tennis? (7)

18: Excessively sentimental dunderhead in the river (5)

20: Serial entanglement with single Middle Easterner (7)

22: Padre's sensibly covering attire (5)

23: A girl in distress, sought by knights (5)

24: Grand space for bride's mate (5)




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