Crossword for Sat, 20/Jan/2007

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Across
1: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)

3: Compete with life in France (3)

5: 'Doctor, I hear bees,' the French drool (7)

9: Flower, large one, set up outside (5)

10: On second thoughts, rising fish glitter (7)

12: Draw the knot (3)

15: Anger that is constraining response (3)

16: Smithys workplace agreement not originally despicable, not totally! (5)

17: Fool to join recital (3)

18: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

20: Where transport is provided by chopper (5)

21: Call for help oddly stops (3)

22: Start reducing salt? (3)

23: This sort of salad vegetable is found mostly below the surface. (7)

25: A quaintly pleasing accent (5)

27: Tinkers jump in children's world (3,4)

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

29: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)

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

2: Why blood is thicker than water? (8,7)

3: Sixpence for big cheese? (1.1.1.)

4: Aliens set off (3)

5: Seduce husband-to-be in parlor (7, 4)

6: Artist's entrance (7)

7: Ruins Wong under treatment and begins a fresh operation (6,3,6)

8: One later enters, like, with matching sides (11)

11: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

13: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

14: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)

19: Ask for bit of bread with melted cheese (7)

20: Pate topping primarily honey and tamari? (3)

24: Feel sick from crack? (3)

25: Perform part of play (3)

26: Encourage horse led with direction. (3)





Solution (Reversed)
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