Crossword for Fri, 16/Jan/2009

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Across
1: Hears rallies (5,2)

5: The shoe fits? Caught in abomination! (7)

9: Have bananas now (3)

10: A Hollywood star upset about paparazzi hub in crude social event (6,5)

11: Challenge the bench in retaliation. (13)

12: Radicchio tastes good in little bits. (5)

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

15: Terrier shows how to stray (3)

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

20: Small piece of fish (3)

21: Finger in pot, stirring (5)

23: Bug found in examination and in a full going-over (10,3)

25: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

26: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

27: Anticipate warning cry about bearing (7)

28: Those who exhibit bathroom fixtures (7)
Down
1: Ban professional writer (9)

2: The bandleader channels energy.(9)

3: Tranquillises extremely senile escorts (7)

4: Famous Quaker drops last Quaker correspondent (9)

5: Melodious vocal rendition of musical composition (5)

6: Give in to clumsy one swallowing vegetables (7)

7: Reportedly hoist Jeter of the NY Yankees (5)

8: Film relay got mixed up (5)

14: Members of the GOP missing note for bartenders (9)

16: Control, coerce, and strengthen (9)

17: Unwelcome visitors oddly unstirred (9)

19: Keeps turning nastier (7)

21: Recognise terrible smell in Vespers for the Dead? (7)

22: Corpse apt to turn up in science fiction (5)

23: Provoke popular scoundrel. (5)

24: Musical composition pleasing to the ear (5)




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