Crossword for Wed, 1/Jun/2011

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Across
1: Blasts most of eucalypt stumps (5)

4: Softly, French author questions socially correct behavior (2,3,2)

9: Hesitation before a certain deletion (7)

10: Who has exploded about G having a lot of rubbish? (7)

11: Dolly led runt astray (7)

12: Treated badly, lost skin covering back (7)

13: Mean to declare how old you are (7)

15: Loud noise in vocal number (7)

16: Sob wildly and preserve secret (7)

18: The Girl Guides show how to start a fire (7)

20: Write to Dee about American the French roughed up (7)

22: Slattern states first client was a clam, for instance. (7)

25: Shape up at invading Congo Free State (7)

26: Tami, soaking up sun, waves (7)

27: Supplied new weapons for revolutionary dreamer (7)

28: Ace girl gets it wrong (5)
Down
1: Visitor made an estimate when audited (5)

2: Law, say, constraining trade union leaders (7)

3: Reliable noise (5)

4: Come before chief of police, and back off (7)

5: Trains without commanding officer and suffers (5)

6: Mongrels at each others' throats in this ruthless world. (3, 3, 3)

7: To fight sunburn, he faced pain unflinchingly. (7)

8: At first, Sonny and Cher having bizarre duel with one providing slots? (9)

13: With greater reason for a riot I riot (1,8)

14: Columbine takes stage during repeated Iolanthe opening, in blue-green (9)

17: Saturday: Wild nature walk (7)

18: Surrounded, small insect crawled into cover (7)

19: Am I nuts fighting this terrible flood? (7)

21: Material extracted, sent back (5)

23: Actress Dern's starting to like distinctive atmosphere (5)

24: Does loose change forfeit worn tail for false head? (5)




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