Crossword for Thu, 2/Aug/2007

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Across
1: Silent, cat backs away from it (5)

4: Came back on a diet anew and wasted away (9)

9: Athletic practice for period of examination (4,5)

10: Taxi in a log house? (5)

11: Foresees a three iron, just as Cassandra did. (7, 6)

14: Animal hiding in abattoir (3)

15: Found jumbo rig in a teamster's parts (9)

17: Call to drink like feeding ducks? (7,2)

18: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

20: 'Ransom'? Lame. Run 'Rocky I', 'II', 'III', etc. (5,8)

22: Keep back a missing ingredient for gunpowder (5)

24: Music drama can go endlessly on (9)

27: Make a deep impression, bound by ties initially thought to be most vexatious (9)

28: The ultimate in tepee doctrine (5)
Down
1: Half disapprove of old king (3)

2: Exciting moment, actor as reviewer (11)

3: Child is to depart, finally (3)

4: Otis and Vince mad for being thrown out repeatedly (9)

5: Shoelace tip has baby bird losing its head (5)

6: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

7: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

8: Forbidden tureen harbors biting thing that comes out at night (7)

11: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)

12: Beware of these they show the funny side of the month! (4,2,5)

13: Arranged date in Cairo means extermination (11)

16: Ill-advised report's first printed in bold (9)

17: Bomb compartment - note damaged weapon (7)

19: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)

21: Trunk contains piece of old knotted rope (5)

23: Worthless even when recycled (3)

25: Perform part of play (3)

26: God, transforming first day into last night, was received (3)




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