Crossword for Fri, 26/Oct/2007

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Across
1: King John's last to find out (5)

4: Alto I somehow kept in the dark, back during interactive broadcasting (4,5)

9: Hobo accepts employment at a home on the water (9)

10: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

11: Regrets taking thousands in with leader of suspiciously questionable nature (9)

13: Theme eradicated partly by an eastern ruler (5)

14: Indolence evident in Rowes Lothario (5)

15: Page with scope for truism (9)

18: Some doctors oust head of Johnson and Johnson? (9)

19: Worry about Democrat's chief staff group (5)

20: Catch first fish? Hold fast (5)

22: Ran quickly along and scraped me badly (9)

24: Requires five kills, or a single accurate shot. (3)

25: Funny noises can rise from below (9)

27: End is close, doctor surreptitiously revealed (9)

28: German overwhelmed by naked touch (5)

Down
1: Slash some flipping werewolves (5)

2: What's left when you burn the tree (3)

3: He is round (grossly fed) (9)

4: Working up here? Not in the next episode (9)

5: Reel around in circles (5)

6: Again, make fast about dead heat (5)

7: Bobbed beneath in playful attempt to drown journalist. (6, 5)

8: Watch, say (7)

12: One Miss Horn takes a tumble with guys having outlaw spirits (11)

16: Nasty sea bandit did not drink. (9)

17: Nice work - point out the beginning (9)

18: Lion-hearted ruler is free after getting burn (7)

21: A girl in distress, sought by knights (5)

22: Cults with oral sex (5)

23: Ball mislaid? Caned (5)

26: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)





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