Crossword for Sat, 16/Aug/2008

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Across
1: Girl hangs around artists' quarter for something to get tanked with? (7)

5: This one may be in a bed with rails above (7)

9: Measure of heat in the empty room (5)

10: Erma Roddy smoked a Camel (9)

11: Shower time, Bonzo? Spring, I hear (5)

12: Sing out, holding scale notes in European city (7)

14: Uncouth chaps met Engel under stress. (4,9)

15: Like a high ranking diplomat's awful ambrosia salad (13)

22: I fall over myself to get a bad reputation (3,4)

23: Many Christmas trees ultimately left in the best place? (5)

24: Backing Brown University comeback, of course (9)

25: After reading this, you'll turn over a new leaf (5)

27: Wrestlers grip held. Too bad (7)

28: D*** petrol pump sample? (7)
Down
1: God, transforming first day into last night, was received (3)

2: Shepherd, at times, is more abrupt in tone (7)

3: Mortified humans - fifty per cent felt great pity (7)

4: Bald guy squashes insect (7)

5: Dope turned to eat bun, starting off big (7)

6: 'Look at quickly,' I cry loudly (7)

7: Apparition in Hampton maze (7)

8: Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)

11: Original caliph adds brave face to UK/Arab struggle (3-4)

13: Set free from rising to study at night; Im unambitious! (7)

16: Fragile one from England let out (7)

17: An Italian port - New Orleans (7)

18: Took advantage of Delia, heading up to northern Virginia (7)

19: Odysseus' first requirement - to catch you like Polyphemus? (3-4)

20: Conclude it was no place of intense heat (7)

21: Melodic rearrangement of asymmetrically split second part (7)

24: Louse can rise (3)

26: Cot is unmade for short month in fall (3)




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