Crossword for Wed, 11/Nov/2009

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Across
1: Eighteen rounds initially served in golf-club bar (9)

5: Keep back a missing ingredient for gunpowder (5)

7: Little singer returned, following band to total a hairy little mother with seating for one. (7)

8: Seed seen when garage is empty (7)

10: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)

11: Sent one page rewritten in military lingo (11)

13: Conceal spring from the narrow-minded (9)

15: Sailor takes gym class to slim down (5)

17: Indolence evident in Rowes Lothario (5)

19: Renewed lease isn't required (9)

21: Support sign for subordinates (11)

23: Encourage horse led with direction. (3)

24: Rams try beating hounds to death (7)

26: Draw out unknown performer before court (7)

27: Crew had dinner, we hear (5)

28: Stabbed, bark 'A Kennedy' (9)
Down
1: Telling of beer jokes brings uproars (9)

2: Snubbed a vacant journalist (7)

3: Bouquet's sent up to network director? (5)

4: 'Ransom'? Lame. Run 'Rocky I', 'II', 'III', etc. (5,8)

5: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

6: Re: bands, unfinished hymn, a type of poetry (5)

8: Secretly include railroad in family future (13)

9: Youngster giving wounded first aid (5)

12: Frequently held back by internet formalities (5)

14: Irish playwright livin soundly (5)

16: Consigned elegant, short, new dresses in red (9)

18: Madison's statue (5)

20: Not being particular, Xena and I moved to Connecticut (7)

21: Monsieur is immersed in unspecified French river (5)

22: Posed in glossy fabric (5)

25: However, you expect trouble at first (3)




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