Crossword for Wed, 18/Mar/2009

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Across
1: Cancel Times and Enquirer initially (5)

3: Curtailed clothing allowance possibly a revolution factor (4,5)

7: Short line in letter back-fires (5)

9: Probed announcer's self-esteem (5)

10: First get a French weapon. (3)

12: Tippecanoe is home to a nut (5)

13: Young horses mistakenly resign early without hesitation (9)

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

16: Following conference's end, wild riot is focus of 'Call' published opinion (9)

17: Characteristic of old door, mouse. (9)

18: Examples of containers (5)

20: Surer rate confused Washington money maker (9)

22: Slow passage where rebel leader joins in gaol-break (5)

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

25: Head man loses head over flower (5)

26: Inexperienced reporter wearing South American diving gear (5)

27: No nuns die tormented by lewd insinuations. (9)

28: Pour dripping over tack (5)
Down
1: Aliens work infrared thrust (7)

2: Sadly curtail urge for land cultivation (11)

3: Romany, some dodgy psychiatrist? (5)

4: Providing energy for cuckoo pairing up (9)

5: To initiate into communist units, they carry the vital gas. (3, 5, 5)

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

8: European sage knew a novel novel (9,4)

11: Arenas almost filling with the hooter (5)

14: 27-across about starting off 1-down world unconditionally (2,3,2,4)

16: Sadly, Tim agreed and left the country (9)

17: Woodland deity posed six months (5)

19: Talked about an urban area in the NW (7)

21: Goes bad and accepts never-ending abuses of the system (5)

24: Club with space for some money (3)




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