Crossword for Tue, 1/Jan/2008

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Across
1: Without a bit of Retin-A, stops wrinkles (7)

5: Possesses id and ego (originally conceived by a Jewish mystic) (7)

9: Scotsman to notice fundamental singular metaphysical entity (5)

10: Nixon's engaging Guevara in scraps (7)

11: Identified slugger around noon (7)

13: The fathead cut down and then collapsed (7)

14: Fifty are returning after the last hemp mixture has a short life cycle (9)

15: Inactive side (3)

17: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)

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

22: Talk about Spanish river vehicle (7)

23: Ask for bit of bread with melted cheese (7)

24: Broken home rid of beneficiarys condition (7)

25: Children nicely holding back secret (5)

27: Congressional body discussed Keystone Kops Mack (7)

28: Twisted, heartless guy scored (7)
Down
1: Big French cheese, Monsieur Parks, arrived earlier (9)

2: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)

3: Mobster at heart, presently I'll be carrying expensive pistol on hip (7)

4: Beginning to send poor around north and south for support (7)

5: Aspirant describing old road movies? (7)

6: Facing defeat on court record? (3,4)

7: Hope destiny is remarkable - to free the mind (11)

8: Looked over recording that included Sea Change (5)

12: Hoarded tiny bits of dryness (11)

16: and 1-down Adherents defer if mistaken for birds (9,7)

18: Song about death for lover of Theseus (7)

19: Essay writers essentially met back in apartment (7)

20: Catch up before old crooner talking blather (7)

21: Nits are possibly more unpleasant (7)

22: Almost all choose fresh salmon (5)

26: Capture ten heading north (3)




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