Crossword for Fri, 25/Sep/2009

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Across
1: Aliens set off (3)

3: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)

8: Extra-radical worker getting tan (9)

9: Where transport is provided by chopper (5)

11: Tribal emblem starts to take on taboo, erotic meaning (5)

12: One who administers drug treatments puts me in band at Hat Head (9)

13: The star of 'Ellen' has at folks with substandard morals (11)

14: One may be a very long time (3)

15: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

17: Thirteen broken adzes repaired (6,5)

21: Greeting South-East Asian from Tibet? (9)

22: Country breaking through anarchy (5)

25: Tender translator of runes (5)

26: State fair without a tree (6,3)

27: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

28: Fiction position (3)
Down
1: Big Bird: 'Apologies--getting a late start' (5)

2: Down by one shot (5)

3: With Silver, all females have such a name! (7)

4: Hide the real solution (7)

5: Try to seduce (7)

6: They teach large groups of swimmers (7)

7: Ten orphans pointlessly wander around the Acropolis. (9)

10: Religious man rumoured to have been taken in by a whopper such as this. (5)

13: All the cards, plus cards held by ship workers (4-5)

16: Gantry in Hilton Hotel, Mermaid Beach (5)

17: About fifty-one complaints - they're thought to be true (7)

18: Tonic for the main speaker. (7)

19: Jimmy Garner's cops (7)

20: Got crazy, wearing feathers in colony of rodents (3,4)

23: Deplorable! Sad wife ugly every second (5)

24: Writer deserts pea-green match (5)




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