Crossword for Tue, 21/Oct/2008

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Across
1: Metallic element forming excellent electrical connection (4,5)

6: Reptile eventually climbing a hill (5)

8: May voyage a spell (7)

9: Original State-in-Origin seat? (5)

11: Yogi's enthralled by boundless flings and deviant behavior (9)

14: Coal remaining at the end of a month (5)

15: Race cars Dr. Silver steers without trace of effort (9)

17: Grant loud colour (3)

18: I shall be sick! (3)

19: Red Square leaders picking up wild stories with electronic gear (9)

20: Practise using public transport (5)

21: Defective gas meters for people who take chances (9)

23: Spring water coming up natural, simple, and fresh (5)

24: Salt sees entrance taking in everyone (7)

27: Put on University of Texas ring (5)

28: Tales swirling about federal agents associated with certain divisions (9)
Down
1: He explored star (7,6)

2: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

3: Terrier shows how to stray (3)

4: Mature writer beyond racy, impertinent introductions (5)

5: Some wealthy women, I'm told, gossip about curves (9)

6: Watering devices found in run-down orange sheds (6, 5)

7: Difficult book about Baltic currency (11)

10: Cat linked stories to the underworld (8-5)

12: Arranged date in Cairo means extermination (11)

13: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)

16: Outrageous! Reimburse Greg. IOUs included (9)

22: Satanic personification in 'Anthem A-Gogo' (5)

25: Fiction position (3)

26: Picture a dessert without topping (3)




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