Crossword for Thu, 14/Dec/2006

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Across
1: Unpopular cad escorted around shopping malls (7)

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

7: Horse fly's, um, retreating (7)

8: Its difficult to include the overhead in the cache (5)

10: It connects surly jams in Sydney?! (5-4,6)

13: 8-down Its the exception to everything else in the dish tub (7,4)

14: Standard style of music rejected (3)

16: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)

19: Snob detaining listener? Flee! (4,3)

23: Transplanting gave gnarled beet place to grow? (9, 6)

24: Laid off, breadwinner's starting to wing it (2-3)

26: Poles in trouble with character from Greece (7)

28: Ways of approaching a goddess without middlemen? (7)

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

Down
1: Toothpaste brand at Target? (3)

2: Rooster embraces fool in a frock (7)

3: Determined attack on a moribund collection (4,3)

4: Bend in the middle and wind back (3)

5: Solo, the pilot rises? No way (3)

6: Cooped up in Essex: pelicans, it would turn out (5)

9: A quaintly pleasing accent (5)

10: Squeeze in a pash (5)

11: Equips for attacks (4)

12: Bite and flip over -- one way to win a wrestling match (3)

15: Stomach-wobbling menu to follow recipe (5)

17: Get into the archeology scene. (3)

18: Elected to instruct audit of electronic giant (5)

20: Five kills one. (3)

21: Aboard a ship is shipping magnate (7)

22: They are instrumental in petty swindles (7)

23: Bloomer made by member of string quartet (5)

25: One may be transported by this kiss, it's said (3)

26: I am reported to leer (3)

27: Tweak with wrong end of a pin (3)





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