Crossword for Sat, 17/Oct/2009

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Across
1: Tippecanoe is home to a nut (5)

4: Standard style of music rejected (3)

6: After a second, whip and rip (5)

9: Norse gentleman? Not exactly. (5)

10: Bigoted, ideological extremes in preamble to bill are misguided (9)

11: Blow the whistle on the end of Chinese burn (5)

12: Closely observes public transport viewing problem (9)

13: Song is a gas (3)

14: Discounting losing one's sense of humour? (8,3)

17: Sound practical perception is a normal feeling (11)

18: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)

19: European arrangement between the French and the German (9)

21: Cook wraps superb sort of bread (5)

22: Ermine, missing tail, squeezing into opening in fence to engage in the process of creating new life (9)

24: Approaches first of nine pieces of corn (5)

26: Herb talked about the fourth dimension (5)

27: Drawing, for example, a bit of a cartoon (3)

28: He is found in the alloy described (5)
Down
1: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)

2: Question prisoner and German spirit (9)

3: Tender translator of runes (5)

4: Waterhouses partner slashes discounts (5,4)

5: April keeps providing material for a poet (5)

6: Material wealth (9)

7: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

8: No hefty role at sea for ship-launcher (5,2,4)

11: Girl hatches subterfuge in prison tower (11)

14: Behold! Desperate alkie has a double (4-5)

15: Wild thing sure is greediest (9)

16: Bilbo got misled about a necessary part (9)

20: Lawyer grabs butt in play (5)

21: Test fabrics in nightgowns and ladies' tops (5)

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

25: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)




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