Crossword for Sat, 24/Nov/2007

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Across
1: Consider sound possibility (5)

4: Felt strangely about unfinished age-old recorder (9)

9: Bull and songbird seen in May (7)

10: A Spanish guitarist goes out with one in Virginia (7)

11: Essay writers essentially met back in apartment (7)

13: Wool is leading stocking fabric (5)

14: Call for help oddly stops (3)

16: Discounting losing one's sense of humour? (8,3)

18: Healers swear by the cases of the little river horse. (11)

19: Famous gardens said to move one to speak. (3)

21: Magnets break rules (5)

23: An Italian port - New Orleans (7)

26: OJ rants about USC football players (7)

27: After start of century, Maud, I'm mixing a yellow pigment (7)

28: Times leader knocks adornments (9)

29: In Germany, the monster returned from the east. (5)
Down
1: Marsupials cut up -- twice (7)

2: I capture about fifty in cove (5)

3: Rabbit (male) with nest of bunnies? (5)

4: Cook small fish. (3)

5: A small rig is something worth having (5)

6: Vegetables are chickens? (9)

7: Grant authority to gaucho, finally, packing whip for farm animals (9)

8: Kind of blue hereafter, at heart; this might tell what's to come? (3,4)

12: One who regrets following initial tendencies is increasingly sincere (5)

15: Star Keanu ultimately involved with certain salespeople's backing (9)

16: Be quick to make appearance with instrument (4,5)

17: Dislikes laughter set-up (5)

18: Unaffected by a little liquor, he nursed the child. (4, 3)

20: Lady hugging extremely old lumberjack (7)

22: Moulding material to be included in upcoming miniseries (5)

24: Two articles in French about Diamonds and Big Dipper (5)

25: War ultimately helps attacks (5)

27: Mediterranean leaves unfashionable coins? (3)




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