Crossword for Sat, 1/Nov/2008

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Across
1: Yap about overdue wages (4,3)

4: Again Italian couple is late (7)

7: Timely introduction of purifier into terribly poor air (9)

9: Vagrant going over a little river to a foreign country (5)

11: Sahl joke: House's last two loan agreements (9)

12: Fill-in professional almost rewrote the column (5)

13: Steer TS into alternative routes (4,7)

15: About....about right? Wrong! (3)

16: Clothilda is carrying a parcel (3)

17: Hang back, keeping right next to person buying a jumper (11)

21: Unsettled boxer (5)

22: Unstained slip covers (9)

25: Rusty hinge makes animal cry (5)

26: Persistently ask for one silly prom song (9)

27: Candidate has no time for ease, apparently (7)

28: Stand up funny as partner to a broom? (7)
Down
1: First bud to emerge in flower. (5)

2: Seasoning for lark (5)

3: Strange guy, Nero jr. (7)

4: Rhyme in Old English to run the show (7).

5: Prepares for rest? I object, returning firstborn's gifts. (7)

6: Cost very little when companion partied wildly outside (4,5)

8: First Lady flees Dame Ednas tantrums (5)

10: Spot stick-in-the-mud Republican with fan (7)

13: Civil War battle in Pamplona? (7)

14: Cal Tech is center of Roman Catholic dogma (9)

17: A monster making some angry phone-calls (7)

18: Sorry, Nine-A is stupid (7)

19: Fell limply and quietly in a squalid area extremely exhausted (7)

20: Stranger's radical party rejected (5)

23: West's last: bottom spade, perhaps (5)

24: Firm rear end (5)




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