Crossword for Fri, 10/Aug/2007

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Across
1: Britannia - she never has blanched (5)

4: Tool placed under sack as a safety precaution (4,5)

8: Sounds like Brazilian soccer player may make a good fisher (7)

9: Something cold in Candice Bergen's makeup (7)

10: Eat away at verse after initial hesitation (5)

11: Pauses awkwardly after error but steadies nerves (5,2)

14: Harsh cry from Cru: 'Late. Aw nuts!' (9)

15: Dizzy Ben is a playwright (5)

16: Airborne without a trace of fear, reclining in plane (5)

18: This is truncated, or the end's off (9)

20: University with unconventional stance about unconventional person (7)

21: Delete Times editorial first (5)

23: Thankless person from Tangier (7)

26: Grandma takes Mr. Thalberg to the 'State of Oblivion' (7)

27: Two detectives produce a cosmetic (3,6)

28: Belated top-and-tailing to gladden one's heart (5)
Down
1: Abundant specimen doffing cap (5)

2: Last offer (4,3)

3: Playwright rethinking copyright wrangle (4,7)

4: European sage knew a novel novel (9,4)

5: Pass mould (3)

6: Frost to cover the cake (3)

7: Took a load off awfully thin ledge (9)

9: Rolling wave rolls into Rolling Stones song (3,3,4,3)

12: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

13: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

14: Pantomime character having to join forces around Lake Superior (9)

17: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

19: Sun god, after climbing once more, falls (7)

22: Departed after her heart put in high spirits (5)

24: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)

25: What's left when you burn the tree (3)




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