Crossword for Tue, 9/Oct/2007

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Across
1: Fruit taken in in inn (9)

5: Globe's automobile award (5)

8: Splits sticks (7)

10: Agrees that a course should be forwarded to the primary school (7)

11: Dispatches last bits following Saturday (5)

13: Piece of pottery containing drink to make beast tender (9)

14: Cut up after having gambled, with death perhaps? (5)

16: Settler-constructed bridge (7)

17: Artists workshop E. Lear bowled over with it (7)

19: Host seems clever, off and on (5)

21: Maid Marian - half American (9)

23: Bring Father back to hang buckets on maples again (5)

24: Typical! Pull over in back (7)

25: Shelter Dracula's heart - he's representing blood-suckers (7)

27: Priestess betrays Sen. Kefauver (5)

28: This is truncated, or the end's off (9)
Down
1: Charged a couple of hundred, getting exploited (7)

2: Later round without an opponent (3)

3: With diverse amendments? (7)

4: Came back on a diet anew and wasted away (9)

5: Big stink-up. Location is disgusting (7)

6: Mend a split state (11)

7: At sea I reused what's left (7)

9: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)

12: Playwright rethinking copyright wrangle (4,7)

15: Green coat for Italian composer and Spanish painter (9)

17: Unfavourable publicity given to metrical composition (7)

18: A sign of winter here in Paris -- clashes when ash is dumped (7)

19: Make money and set out to be serious (7)

20: Sex and dope are wrong, it's revealed (7)

22: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

26: Polygraph unexpectedly traps vandal (3)




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