Crossword for Tue, 16/Oct/2007

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Across
1: Observed no Knight (5)

4: A muskmelon or cola nut pa sliced (9)

8: True side (5)

9: Crooked Nile ran on, just not in a straight line (9)

10: Manipulated Cleo, queen with a silver tongue (9)

12: Raced around a tree (5)

13: Sharpen search, including gym and cubbyholes (9)

15: He is found in the alloy described (5)

17: Wants - in fact, just has to have (5)

18: Drink to the crashing of beetle car (9)

19: Soupy trade? (5)

21: Keep an eye on a new teak floor (4,5)

24: Development of GEHQ (9)

25: In Howard's End - one has a passage here from Forster (5)

27: Crooner Mel: famous, loveless, suffering (9)

28: Lacking energy, no Tech win (5)
Down
1: Tender translator of runes (5)

2: Draw a stomach uprising (3)

3: Does the wandering hero duly hostess perplex? (7)

4: Church council regulation sounds like a big gun (5)

5: Unspoken corruption - born venal! (3-6)

6: Adore inconstant nymph (5)

7: Share chain of hills with pear tree percher? (9)

11: Lightweight cat (5)

12: Rebel action disrupted festival (11)

13: Clear vision of no assistance (9)

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

16: Old role for paintings that trick the eye (2,3)

20: New roles for a flop (5)

22: Had dressed formally without a hat (5)

23: Come to Korea - Chinese part (5)

26: Period email feature (3)




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