Crossword for Sun, 24/May/2009

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Across
1: There's uranium in many a flower (5)

4: I've lost struggle (3)

6: Supplementing oriental ruler (5)

9: Canadian water ordered for regal tea-break (5,4,4)

10: Detailed map I sent off (5)

12: Relative takes funny pose on glass bridge? (9)

14: Ill-conceived encore run for Edward VIII, say (9)

15: Crazy ogre royal? I hear you! (5)

16: Mrs Schmidt's penny is fake (5)

18: Do people in the medical speciality consider law? (9)

20: Reading or writhing in river (3,6)

21: Guard enthralled by desperately urgent sad song (5)

22: Diet, sir! Clergy upset with fat constituents (13)

26: Newsman Bradley accepts men, correct? (5)

27: Sounds like a wolf on the coast (3)

28: Dance to a higher degree in rugby? (5)
Down
2: Turncoat's first motive for disloyalty (7)

3: Take Chair in university (3)

4: Compete with life in France (3)

5: About....about right? Wrong! (3)

6: Quite put out, doctor axes red tape (11)

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

8: Ball-horses are travellers! (5-8)

9: Location of cheating, fiercer gender (4,9)

11: A favourite car of Seattle natives. (11)

12: Central matter for physicists luncheon: rocks releasing hydrogen (7)

13: Come up to breathe the skin? (7)

17: Early missionary or saint in a European setting (7)

19: This would make me a lord (7)

23: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)

24: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)

25: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)




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