Crossword for Thu, 19/Jul/2007

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Across
1: Drink to them, not with them. (6,7)

8: Perpendicular to 25-across? (5)

9: Moving haltingly, stopping short of the end (about a foot), by sundown (9)

11: Taste test (5)

12: Clothilda is carrying a parcel (3)

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

14: Youre filming some Return of the Long Term Prisoner (5)

15: Nude redhead receiving backward glance is one serving drinks (9)

16: Most popular batter rested in dugout at last (9)

21: Surpass former church leader, at first (5)

23: Brings home vases, reportedly (5)

24: One may be a very long time (3)

25: Patches bones (5)

27: Radical Ulster reb is boastful windbag (9)

28: Cathy's new boat (5)

29: Plowmen let Amy spread job statute (10,3)

Down
1: Long for a mass of reporters (5)

2: Police badge (7)

3: Quicker in rising, doctor left Veterans Centre (7)

4: Bunch of devotees arouse group (3,4)

5: Can't sue crazy lunatic (3,4)

6: Short policeman consumes nothing but seafood (7)

7: Bigoted, ideological extremes in preamble to bill are misguided (9)

10: Swamp creature resting tail on a rocky outcrop (5)

14: Rev. Spooner suggests superior makes fast mail merge site (6,3)

17: One true turning on the way (2,5)

18: Computer screen is OK with time sped up (7)

19: Theme eradicated partly by an eastern ruler (5)

20: Fit in cave after tea (7)

21: Before much time has elapsed a nobleman takes that over there (5,2)

22: Will addition show 100 + 0 + 500 + 99 + 49? (7)

26: Guided into the West (2,3)





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