Crossword for Mon, 18/Sep/2006

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Across
1: Bald guy squashes insect (7)

4: Shorten a spine with boron injection (7)

7: Freedom of action in desert (7)

8: Actors were first to have moved on board (7)

9: Surprised fat southerner heading west to execute media mogul Turner (13)

13: Smudge reams of misprints (5)

15: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)

16: Child, bask by the sound (3)

19: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)

20: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)

21: Tender translator of runes (5)

22: Let not passion sway philosophers (3-10)

24: Records that could be hits (7)

25: Plots get Cuban revolutionary leader in a terrible mess (7)

27: Shelter Dracula's heart - he's representing blood-suckers (7)

28: Unknown little princess turning food with tongue (7)
Down
2: Tender command (3)

3: Trap with hands? (3)

5: Bolted up tiptop earthenware (5)

6: Stopped and looked after blowing top (5)

7: Charged a couple of hundred, getting exploited (7)

8: California bone head describes Bermuda Triangle region (9)

10: This time doctors learn about the kidneys (7)

11: Greenback entrances Microsoft boss (4,5)

12: Sanctions mailed through fool (7)

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

17: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

18: Coolest sort of cats (7)

22: Arenas almost filling with the hooter (5)

23: Lightweight cat (5)

25: Find out scout (3)

26: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)




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