Crossword for Thu, 16/Aug/2012

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Across
1: Prosecutor entering motion following air conditioning company manager's initial settlement (13)

9: Contrarily tough, arriving cool (9)

10: Algerian city has grand musical instrument (5)

11: Sour substance made from grape plant and fish (7)

12: Apricot tart contains cheese (7)

13: San Francisco athlete captures wild boar, an obvious choice (2-7)

16: Almost all the foliage has to go. (5)

17: Rambling tales are out of date (5)

18: Solver, tossing and turning with sick pet, didn't wake up in time (9)

20: Late-starting affinity for charm (7)

22: Aspirant describing old road movies? (7)

24: I competed with climbers on the walls? (5)

25: Increases scales; ate sloppily (9)

28: Beat it and ran, for example, with Girl Scout ingredients (9,4)
Down
1: Copy of top ten missing (3)

2: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

3: Satanic personification in 'Anthem A-Gogo' (5)

4: Little bitty lines on a letter from Athens (7)

5: Argue about something boring (5)

6: Even I help 100 elves save five (9)

7: The margin trade ordeal (9)

8: Support a deranged original (11)

11: Trashy dime novel about American sex symbol who's not all there? (5,2,4)

14: Live with stewed spinach ingredients (4,5)

15: Great conqueror or ragtime bandleader (9)

19: Upright drunk's interjection interrupts the others briefly (7)

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

23: Patchy trim for lace top is velvety (5)

26: Send back gangster's gun to get ID (3)

27: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)




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