Crossword for Sun, 18/Nov/2007

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Across
1: Standard degenerates for reiterators (7)

5: Poles in trouble with character from Greece (7)

9: Float me a loan covering breakfast, perhaps (7)

10: What this puzzle is (3)

11: Worthless even when recycled (3)

12: Support a deranged original (11)

13: In fear of wheat head (3)

15: Models from Evans Head extremely purposeful in Red Planet (9)

16: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

17: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

19: One fowl and yet two foul (9)

22: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

23: Check strong drink of 22-acrosss bold alter ego (5,6)

25: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

26: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)

27: Typical! Pull over in back (7)

28: Before much time has elapsed a nobleman takes that over there (5,2)

29: Please start to sing at one San Francisco club (7)
Down
1: Ultimately develop top demonstration (5)

2: Followers shown uprising in some unit erection (7)

3: Too old for love - a woman, for example, rejected (7)

4: Pal teased about crazy snack food (6,7)

6: Records that could be hits (7)

7: Settler rearranged alphabet components (7)

8: Plain grim? (3,6)

10: Irregular bouts of activity suit beach scrubbers (4,3,6)

14: Fruit taken in in inn (9)

18: English poet writes about head of Scottish queen (7)

19: Pair of witnesses' mostly smooth transfer may end with Tony Soprano, possibly (7)

20: Half of them should have had an idea (7)

21: Prepares for rest? I object, returning firstborn's gifts. (7)

24: Before time like an aristocrat? (5)




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