Crossword for Thu, 20/Aug/2009

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Across
2: Endless barbecue arranged for young carnivore (4,3)

6: Biting piece of chocolate with dry exterior (5)

8: Dining on donuts, for the sake of argument? (9)

9: Religious types taking some time in the morning? (5)

11: Patrick Team cooked chicken (5,4)

12: Adore inconstant nymph (5)

13: Direct object (3)

14: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

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

20: Consumed and digested tea (3)

21: A friend comes round to appease (5)

23: Fruit taken in in inn (9)

26: Whip stuff with energy (5)

27: Young chap gets a slice of fish (9)

28: Messages transmitted about a mile (1-4)

29: Tranquillises extremely senile escorts (7)
Down
1: Repair stitching that flares Ewok cloaks (5)

2: Ceremonial lamb turned about a revolving spit (9)

3: Climactic age opal tossed (7)

4: Part of speech idealists rebuke (5)

5: Beauty held a label up as being the merest trifle (9)

6: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)

7: Dry out. Heated? Dry out (9)

10: Frost to cover the cake (3)

13: Woman losing head after another fall (9)

15: Do springs help American author? (3,6)

16: Article entered in it that is a point for silly remarks (9)

18: Unfathomable letters from Lamb, say (7)

19: Mean a favourite defensive work (7)

22: Fiction position (3)

24: Exposed Debra daringly (5)

25: Composer employed in hotel garage (5)




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