Crossword for Wed, 23/Jul/2008

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Across
1: Central section interrupting main tune (7)

5: Most organized, I'd interest in examination (7)

8: Almost all the foliage has to go. (5)

9: Al's gamble on outcome of sports (4,5)

11: Changed musician not so offensively pious (13)

13: Editor wearing trousers meets word purists (7)

16: Hear Native American appeal (3)

17: Five kills one. (3)

18: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

19: Tweak with wrong end of a pin (3)

20: Storey's fantastic seafood (7)

21: A little sports car, let to harassed Southern belle (8,5)

25: Staggering by, notices something offensive (9)

27: Firm rear end (5)

28: Put out a journal in a foreign language (7)

29: French Olympic judge's error mixed up everything (7)
Down
1: A long way to go for a monomaniacal musician (5)

2: Tied down holding back fighting (5)

3: Powerless to move, as shiner tremendously shows (5)

4: Chain some; cuff objectors (3)

5: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)

6: Does Rod go to pieces with kind but impractical reformers? (2-7)

7: Vulgar and insipid (9)

10: Mother's herb rubdown (7)

12: Actress Tori, lacking direction, is getting the characters out of order(11)

13: Favorite obsession, love touching undergarment (9)

14: Adulterates by adding acid perhaps? (7)

15: Unmatched on plainer work (9)

22: Do as I say in short retreat (5)

23: Run around near a stadium (5)

24: Record left by teacher in Siam (5)

26: Root for mounting might (3)




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