Crossword for Mon, 11/Dec/2006

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Across
2: Endless greeting after wine and cheese (4-5)

8: French love listening to a person like Othello (5)

11: Oval serving of lamb covers one half of tray (9)

12: Cook wraps superb sort of bread (5)

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

14: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)

16: Gardener's concoction left in a lot (5)

19: Spices clubs (5)

22: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

23: Control escape (3)

24: Sluggish trainer takes part (5)

26: Very clever fish ain't at sea (9)

27: Gantry in Hilton Hotel, Mermaid Beach (5)

28: Tossing and turning, I wondered what the comforter might be made of (9)

Down
1: Fairy tale character concealed in simulated war front (5)

3: Go right ahead, it's simple. (8, 7)

4: Fabled creature: She controls men's fooling around (4,4,7)

5: Offensive time: that woman's in restraints (7)

6: On second thoughts, rising fish glitter (7)

7: It's expedient to engage in habit-forming activity (9)

9: Loathing for leader leaving platform (5)

10: Stir outspoken 3-down resident, usually (5)

15: I bang rock, disturbing snake (4,5)

17: Hot burnt residue is on hot pot (7)

18: Sickens up, reels with disgust (7)

20: Part of speech idealists rebuke (5)

21: Vapour in the street the final morning (5)

25: Trunk and tangled roots (5)





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