Crossword for Tue, 18/Sep/2007

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Across
1: With great strength holy man stays above reproach (9)

6: Frequently decimal? (5)

8: Gray's line about young animals (9)

9: Falstaff's first clever lie (5)

11: Behind and down and out (3)

12: Ceases running features about Republican in serious trouble (4,7)

13: Musical direction for an old poet (7)

15: Delay yield (5)

17: Navigate by terse directions (5)

20: Give a bad review to Pain in style (7)

23: Seduce husband-to-be in parlor (7, 4)

25: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

26: Laid off, breadwinner's starting to wing it (2-3)

27: Threatening mischievous lad with termination (9)

28: Confuse cast (5)

29: UCLA urea tests involve internationally recognized scientists (9)

Down
1: Crushed bones, say, as source of sauce (4,5)

2: Supplied new weapons for revolutionary dreamer (7)

3: Knight-errant or young man in distress (7)

4: The quality of the inside of hotel is followed by gross sneers (9)

5: Blasts most of eucalypt stumps (5)

6: Expressed willingness to be away before start of day (7)

7: Massages were reported to be essential elements. (5)

10: Lawyer keeps it short (5)

14: With little preparation, I'm leading dance with piano and pair of utus (9)

16: Prune plums for reserves, once more (9)

18: Correspond with mother and I boarding train (1-4)

19: Benign omen said to govern lover (7)

21: Explosive device held by one failed candidate (7)

22: She plays in a small enclosure on one street (7)

23: Preliminary form of conscription (5)

24: Question number one (5)





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