Crossword for Wed, 18/Jul/2007

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Across
1: Glint of silica in neat crystal (5)

4: Hears rallies (5,2)

9: Good place for sniper for fill? (9)

10: Record left by teacher in Siam (5)

11: 'Shut up or else,' con snarled (7)

13: Popular buzz over an animal (7)

14: Famous spy taking leave with odd instrument (5,4)

16: Mediterranean leaves unfashionable coins? (3)

17: Freshen the atmosphere (3)

18: Simpletons at home with no money (9)

21: Evolve from crude Velo predator (7)

23: Rushes lots of material around the rear (7)

24: Had dressed formally without a hat (5)

25: Spy on (9)

27: Always, the final way is a mountain! (7)

28: Ripped off a group of hard-up Edwardians (5)

Down
1: Wanderer features in ones best adage (7)

2: Frost to cover the cake (3)

3: Comic's ROM crashed! Small world, isn't it? (9)

4: One appears at jetty to lead the way (7)

5: After start of century, Maud, I'm mixing a yellow pigment (7)

6: Squirrel with a fuzzy caterpillar, say? (5)

7: Criticise a computer analysis of famous passage (6,5)

8: Date for Roman candles to be ordered (7)

12: Invention to trick four into a stupor (11)

15: Spooner's bar preserved for supported (9)

17: ... and soon it will be read as etc. (3,2,2)

18: Mischievous child learning to beg (7)

19: Finest tree house exhibits gist of problem (7)

20: Hang South American author at crack of dawn (7)

22: Boy returning the Spanish server (5)

26: A representative may be a scamp (3)





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