Crossword for Wed, 8/Nov/2006

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Across
1: Cathy's new boat (5)

5: Records that could be hits (7)

9: Flower, large one, set up outside (5)

10: Tender translator of runes (5)

11: Frost to cover the cake (3)

12: Save the forests regarding a series (7)

16: Tine expert no good (5)

17: New Testament stories about gifts (7)

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

19: An Indian princess fled east repeatedly (5)

20: Film star nuts about sheep (3,4)

22: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

23: Go up cedar's first branch (5)

26: Part of speech idealists rebuke (5)

28: Plots get Cuban revolutionary leader in a terrible mess (7)

29: Language making a comeback in modern Italy (5)

Down
2: Think at length about lost planet, comet (11)

3: Worthless even when recycled (3)

4: Bird dog devouring bad lad (4,5)

5: Penniless meal is fantastic (5)

6: No one told sister (3)

7: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

8: Prig had ma conceal midriff (9)

11: Press or key source of metal (4,3)

13: Officer is bit of a nut, they say (7)

14: Mend a split state (11)

15: Renewed lease isn't required (9)

17: Mild expletive for a sea-faring people? (9)

21: They secure money for the government, so we hear (5)

24: Equips for attacks (4)

25: Behind and down and out (3)

27: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)





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