Crossword for Tue, 8/Aug/2006

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Across
1: Gold tooth, perhaps, in satellite? (7)

5: Anger that is constraining response (3)

7: Is Pat suitable? (3)

8: Part of stair is erect (5)

9: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

10: Something useful - like a matching collection? (5)

12: Draw the knot (3)

13: Firm rear end (5)

14: Study a French instrument - it's a puzzle (9)

17: Actors judged as eunuchs (9)

18: Headless rodent left by bird (5)

21: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

23: Called oriental area (5)

24: Former name for joint audition (3)

25: Part of speech idealists rebuke (5)

26: Child is to depart, finally (3)

27: Grant loud colour (3)

28: Odysseus' first requirement - to catch you like Polyphemus? (3-4)
Down
1: Gets in boats at sea (7)

2: False sounds ruin Attic drama (5,10)

3: A small rig is something worth having (5)

4: Queen forced to meet irate nation? (5,10)

5: Private dinner starts late (5)

6: This would make me a lord (7)

7: Comes to as Ken from Perth gets in (7)

11: Understood I engaged in diplomacy (5)

15: A drain could be at the bottom (5)

16: Particular esteem (7)

17: Greek city - in the Adriatic or in Thessaly (7)

19: It's not the editor in chief that looked threatening (7)

20: Not here? No, no! (5)

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




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