Crossword for Tue, 14/Oct/2008

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Across
1: Wags components of 22-across (5)

4: Sarcastic critic, alas drunk, missing bit of comedy (9)

9: The French embargo on Middle Eastern nation (7)

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

11: Minor change in the White House? (6-3-4)

13: Star Trek role, beginning to end, is the pits (5)

15: Decorative plant spray to put in shelter (9)

16: Civil libertarian sends building uprights (4,5)

20: Chump getting past in chasm (5)

21: Dangerous undertaking skiers in busy S bend (5,8)

24: 20-across Love to be a boy on a farm; its a means of reconciliation (5,6)

25: Dancer Duncan is a road protestor (7)

27: Do people in the medical speciality consider law? (9)

28: Host seems clever, off and on (5)

Down
1: The cow may do this in the local veterinary yard (5)

2: Jewish leader second in the shower (5)

3: Sounds like a bright child (3).

4: Ray! Say lad, smile! (7)

5: Tutus can serve to conceal Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael, say (7)

6: Redesign it about Elle. (7)

7: Shortened lingerie test sexual attraction (9)

8: Loses ones extraordinary flexibility (9)

12: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

13: Repack? Foe repacks, but gives nothing away. (9)

14: Ice cream containers to Georgia in wagon (9)

17: I'd party wildly after hitting this? (3,4)

18: One wink, or forty (4-3)

19: Sift around half-killed transporter (3-4)

20: Requires five kills, or a single accurate shot. (3)

22: Stick mostly around center of group, impassive (5)

23: Stop cold, then relax (5)

26: Consumed and digested tea (3)





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