Crossword for Fri, 19/Dec/2008

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Across
1: Disillusioned with the tune not being broadcast (3,3,3)

5: They secure money for the government, so we hear (5)

8: Anyway - no! (3)

10: Sadly curtail urge for land cultivation (11)

11: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

12: Attack raise with no return (3,4)

14: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)

15: Done any revision? It's dull (7)

16: Get rid of Bush (5)

17: Father married, and had his hands all over her. (5)

19: Send in the beer, Saint Peter (7)

21: Scale Ten after taxes (3)

22: Congressman Grant's adversary gobbles steak bone, getting stuffed (7)

23: What's left when you burn the tree (3)

25: Girl hatches subterfuge in prison tower (11)

27: Famous gardens said to move one to speak. (3)

28: Casts off shacks (5)

29: Simple addition in cult film (4,5)
Down
1: Lightweight cat (5)

2: Rumors of corn among grass (7)

3: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

4: Exchange recipe describing a small amount of relish on rolled up taco (11)

5: New Testament stories about gifts (7)

6: Challenge the bench in retaliation. (13)

7: Write down 'In mink, not frozen'? (9)

9: Leo, wealthy, wig awry, looking awfully old! (6,4,3)

13: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

15: Climbers in tumbling tailspins (9)

18: Handles bad cents (7)

20: Low-rated senator upset (3-4)

24: Where transport is provided by chopper (5)

26: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)




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