Crossword for Wed, 17/Oct/2012

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Across
1: Maintenance with Jones family perhaps (7,2)

5: How to secure man-haters at last (5)

8: No hot tamale in this dish (7)

10: Perplexingly, Melbourne Cricket Club ate a Black Rock venue popular with Muslims. (2, 5)

11: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)

12: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

13: Allow meathead into mine opening (5)

14: Tongue-in-cheek advice to enter cast (5,1,3)

16: Slip in terror (5)

17: Bouquet's sent up to network director? (5)

19: If forced, see idle TV broadcast (9)

21: Smells renovated doors (5)

22: Going after the final piece of puzzle for a very long time (3)

23: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

25: Recover via fantastic miracle (7)

26: I left bear in pain it was the curdled milk! (7)

27: Worry about Democrat's chief staff group (5)

28: Set out again for back stove (9)
Down
1: Familiar King, now reign at its end (5)

2: Englishman opening a can to dine at home (3,2)

3: First aid for sprains is common in the arctic. (3, 4)

4: Aunt Peg really messed up the cheap seats (6,7)

5: Run riot and show anger around a representative (7)

6: Finally check third of bomb shelters, after officer returns with scars (9)

7: Stray cat deters bats (9)

9: Something good made by dwarf barber, perhaps! (6,7)

14: See chess piece: king suffering hard loss (9)

15: Lineman circled South Carolina once, and settled down (9)

18: Father's wise migration (7)

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

23: Slight urge at night (5)

24: This identifies the literary epic at the outset! (5)




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