Crossword for Thu, 18/Sep/2008

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Across
1: Red Square leaders picking up wild stories with electronic gear (9)

6: Pathological bumbler holds a record (5)

9: Fancied poem composed in comfort (5,2,4)

10: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)

11: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)

12: Whip a pick-me-up to cause stupor (9).

14: Show singular glasses? (9)

16: Deplorable! Sad wife ugly every second (5)

18: Flower, large one, set up outside (5)

19: Friendly over age of consent? (9)

21: Poet or old king on crest (9)

23: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)

25: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)

26: A favourite car of Seattle natives. (11)

28: Unscripted part for head librarian (2,3)

29: Took a load off awfully thin ledge (9)
Down
1: Frantically parries swords (7)

2: Create an impression on an envelope? (5)

3: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

4: Inactive side (3)

5: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

6: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

7: Twice French mounted plain bovines (5)

8: Evita, for example, making false claim about American (7)

12: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

13: Exchange concealed proprietary knowledge (5,6)

15: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

17: Chain some; cuff objectors (3)

18: Musical work for double act with nothing new (7)

20: Men caught in vile deed should be 'fixed' (7)

22: Jacket feature from copy seen in fifties (5)

24: Pervert stripped in mineral water (5)

26: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

27: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)




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