Crossword for Tue, 15/Apr/2008

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Across
1: Excerpt from selection in 'The Ultimate Life of a Cat,' perhaps (5)

4: Taint corrupted giant (5)

7: What's left when you burn the tree (3)

9: Why give someone a ticking off? (4,3)

11: Slangily, hip old English author (5)

12: Chosen few travelled on with conductor (9)

13: Mechanical worker pushing start button in the depths of the plant (5)

15: Writer deserts pea-green match (5)

16: Television show genre is like this each time (4,5)

18: Nationals eating spy? Gross! (9)

20: Skin gash exists (5)

22: Soupy trade? (5)

24: Columbine takes stage during repeated Iolanthe opening, in blue-green (9)

25: Content little rest for the painter (5)

26: Bad blood from taking head off to slay William (3,4)

27: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

28: Discover treasure hiding in plain sight (5)

29: Drunk held firmly (5)
Down
1: I see marks on jumbled party favors (11)

2: Yew chopped up inside close to January (3,4)

3: Halest hesitater is lost (9)

5: 3-down said Sir, I have these! (5,4,4)

6: The lowest point in a dire section (5)

7: A n-novel cordial (7)

8: Grant loud colour (3)

10: State that may be so ideal for sap (5,8)

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

17: Believer in esoteric powers is joining quasi-religious group in October (9)

19: Moscow politician revolting in style (7)

21: Put out a journal in a foreign language (7)

23: Round of fire involving Vietnam's leader in Laos disturbance (5)

25: Terrier shows how to stray (3)




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