Crossword for Sun, 15/Apr/2007

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Across
1: Color orange upset poet something terrible (5,4)

6: Upset expression of surprise follows failure of comic take-off (5)

9: Later round without an opponent (3)

10: Risk of pole womans end being upset after handy beer (11)

11: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)

12: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)

13: Mend a split state (11)

16: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)

18: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

19: Quite put out, doctor axes red tape (11)

20: Essential part of Cayce's power! (3)

22: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

25: Rifles protect lady from 16-down overhead (11)

26: Small piece of fish (3)

28: Influenced by sound material (5)

29: Treat sick duck? Mothers after foreign tissue tumours (9)
Down
1: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

2: Fashionable fragrance, fundamentally (2,7)

3: City train bears the woman's name (5)

4: Mature writer beyond racy, impertinent introductions (5)

5: Flower - say, in Victoria's province - to raise (9)

6: Pump witness (9)

7: Ordered hoop to conserve mass and energy (5)

8: Mrs Schmidt's penny is fake (5)

13: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

14: Chosen few travelled on with conductor (9)

15: Rent dinner suit at drapers? Not Des! (4,5)

16: Cad mad about Dutch port (9)

17: Bloody bored inside (3)

20: Almost reveal Nationals' former identity (5)

21: Part, or bring together (5)

23: Pan given back by pastry taster (5)

24: Shoelace tip has baby bird losing its head (5)

27: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)




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