Crossword for Wed, 8/Apr/2009

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Across
1: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)

7: Small piece of fish (3)

9: Capone frequently gets high (5)

10: Twice French mounted plain bovines (5)

11: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)

12: Tutus can serve to conceal Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael, say (7)

13: Write off aggregate (5)

14: Double profit repeatedly (5,3,5)

18: My gal talking to Italian at the table? (5,8)

20: Plate through the nose for lasso (5)

23: Mostly yearning for headache remedy (7)

24: Fiction position (3)

25: April keeps providing material for a poet (5)

26: Corpse apt to turn up in science fiction (5)

27: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

28: Okay shot ripped tears in butt (6-5)
Down
1: The portrayal of things as they are in Mailer's novel (7)

2: Something lacking in brief season (9)

3: Fabulous setting for Biblical character: American state (9)

4: San Francisco athlete captures wild boar, an obvious choice (2-7)

5: Relieves each emergency service (5)

6: Principle unaffected by revolution (5)

7: Bolted up tiptop earthenware (5)

8: Very young cat I lost in an ancient city (7)

15: Relative takes funny pose on glass bridge? (9)

16: Foolishly I air spats of beekeepers (9)

17: A country inn, a great building (9)

18: Records that could be hits (7)

19: Deck out detective, putting pants on backwards (5,2)

21: Adore inconstant nymph (5)

22: Slip in terror (5)

23: Laid off, breadwinner's starting to wing it (2-3)




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