Crossword for Sat, 25/Aug/2007

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Across
1: Gnomelike feature of parallel fingers (5)

4: They say the headmaster should be guided by this (9)

9: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)

10: Down by one shot (5)

11: Outcasts return will elicit disgust (5)

12: Bargain holds principal leftovers for French room (5)

14: Soldier embracing a bawdy Italian patriot (9)

15: Rocks lure a breeding fish (4,9)

16: Repeated note to help player? (6-7)

21: Set out samovars for featured skits (4,5)

23: Tired backing cookie brand (5)

24: Flower festival is pointless (5)

25: Troubled tenor with a transposition (2,3,5)

27: Sixpence for big cheese? (1.1.1.)

28: Uncommon fly on rare plant (5,4)

29: Organ is stable until the end (5)
Down
1: Thirteenth in a series, ER's about an Aussie racketeer who took repeated slams? (7)

2: Bunch of devotees arouse group (3,4)

3: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

4: Daughter staring after gym teacher (7)

5: Resident's web terminal missing (7)

6: Rebel action disrupted festival (11)

7: Student getting black eye, opening light transmitter (5)

8: Closer to morning, sound of storyteller follows organ (7)

13: One later enters, like, with matching sides (11)

16: Praised moving anguish (7)

17: Pub brawl led to heavy gunfire. (7)

18: Bear with a blemish following us around (7)

19: Manservant returns at four in Mideast city (3 4)

20: Case for recording Eminem, for example (7)

22: Fittingly, use following heart transplant (5)

26: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)




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