Crossword for Tue, 19/Sep/2006

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Across
1: New Testament stories about gifts (7)

4: Neil Armstrong, first to return from another world? (5)

7: A French number that is Country or Jazz (9)

9: Part of speech idealists rebuke (5)

10: Distance to pull cart up before time (7)

12: Threefold test (5)

13: Sort of collection to compose print (7)

14: Mortified humans - fifty per cent felt great pity (7)

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

19: Lies for each twelve men (7)

20: Path of planet - or particle (5)

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

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

26: Simpletons at home with no money (9)

27: An Indian princess fled east repeatedly (5)

28: Have sheriff's helpers joined Nazi police (7)
Down
1: Roosevelt's undergarment? (5)

2: Roman light and gold found in Egyptian town. (5)

3: Ruddy rare steak, say? (7)

4: Tie torn coats (7)

5: Briefly sign first (7)

6: Former name for joint audition (3)

8: Proficient in arithmetic, starting with short division (5)

11: Something useful - like a matching collection? (5)

15: Its strange to go back to a novice for a wall decoration (5)

17: Very young cat I lost in an ancient city (7)

18: Italian composer making endless noise, sir (7)

19: Call unexpectedly, find Dad at home! (3,2)

21: Bleat about delay (5)

23: Ball mislaid? Caned (5)

24: Bouquets of flowers, freshly opened (5)

25: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)




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