Crossword for Wed, 2/Aug/2006

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Across
1: A driven person, Ness left wearing a beeper (9)

5: Terrorists question one of Saddam's subjects (5)

8: Damage quite an old one. (7)

10: Skilled Sturt pedagogue reviewed unit (5)

12: Wives' strange ideas (5)

14: Part of speech idealists rebuke (5)

15: Lucifer lived backward (5)

18: Check about a form of power (5)

20: Deputy at clock centre sounds hesitant (5)

22: Ornamentation used in the a la mode coronet (5)

24: I consider him to be angry (5)

26: Hair, essentially brown, swirling about in colorful display (7)

28: Adjust to initially having little juice (5)

29: Butcher shop's opening to sounds of hilarity (9)
Down
1: Strip legumes (7)

2: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

3: Old puzzle - it sounds delightful (9)

4: Gun I've cleaned, finally, and made operative again (7)

5: Idea I'm followed for days (5)

6: Healthy, but lacking first beer (3)

7: Extreme aims voiced (7)

9: Follow in broken suede shoes (5)

11: Charged a couple of hundred, getting exploited (7)

13: Sarah has friends from France on a Greek island (7)

16: Housework really sucks! (9)

17: Fixes price and French proof of sale (7)

19: Noble start to resistance in French resistance movement (7)

20: Beer, fit for a king, is served up (5)

21: One providing funds for last one in debt (7)

23: Side-face, or front? (5)

25: Copy of top ten missing (3)

27: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)




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