Crossword for Wed, 19/Dec/2007

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Across
1: It's news broadcast for a seer (7)

4: Came to point out Pat Reed (7)

8: Small boat from County Clare, possibly (7)

10: Book half written by sculptor or composer (7)

11: Gutter seamstress (5)

12: Evidently, the French are mixing heavenly (9)

15: Cook ran; ragout spilled; one might jump to conclusions here? (8,5)

18: Ned Lunig, thrown inside, openly seen to be crapulous (13)

19: Extremely tense many times about a private conversation (4-1-4)

21: Note found in prison is swell (5)

23: Tavern drink for the auditor, one with access to confidential information (7)

26: Gold tooth, perhaps, in satellite? (7)

27: True gem discovered within landscape feature (3-4)

28: Having red nose, turned back (7)
Down
1: Eastenders' David gets on most people's (5)

2: Rejecting crew's work on board, you rest at the stern (8,3)

3: Casts off shacks (5)

4: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

5: Everlasting variety for Peter and Paul (9)

6: Road without a pole (4)

7: Add pantry to make dude! (9)

9: See, you are a cad. (3)

13: Put liquor in hollow capsule swallowed by young man (5)

14: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)

15: Offering advice, King takes over one bit, zany initially (9)

16: Greenspan hugs former wife and the German control freak Haig (9)

17: 20-across Love to be a boy on a farm; its a means of reconciliation (5,6)

20: Eat away at verse after initial hesitation (5)

21: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)

22: Tender translator of runes (5)

24: In all, just a little peak. (3)

25: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)




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