Crossword for Fri, 2/Jan/2009

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Across
2: Deliver a sweetener to mix with your date? (5,4,4)

8: Saturday: Wild nature walk (7)

9: Former name for joint audition (3)

10: Period email feature (3)

11: Unaffected by a little liquor, he nursed the child. (4, 3)

14: Points about dangerous wires can invigorate. (7)

15: Gauge for myself a firm (7)

17: Encase most of the Ashes wrongly (7)

18: This would make me a lord (7)

19: Batters consisting of partially digested food and semi-solids (7)

20: Putting your foot in it may incite Royal intervention (7)

21: Crazy bald guy in Beetle (7)

24: Control escape (3)

25: I shall be sick! (3)

26: Sanctions mailed through fool (7)

28: Fine legs confused emotions (5,8)
Down
1: Hellish painter spoke piffle (5)

2: Horrid, filthy lucre (5)

3: On the canvas from third strike (3)

4: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

5: Crazy to clean sons in awful mess (11)

6: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)

7: 'True men' is false (9)

10: Ardent supporter strangely vetoed last part of statute (7)

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

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

15: West abandoned mortals without a spot of confusion (9)

16: Indict a sprinkling of reporters? (7)

22: Rings for the groups (5)

23: Overwhelmed at first, following sudden burst of enthusiasm (5)

26: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

27: Child, bask by the sound (3)




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