Crossword for Sat, 26/Aug/2006

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Across
1: God, transforming first day into last night, was received (3)

3: Mend a split state (11)

6: Check strong drink of 22-acrosss bold alter ego (5,6)

10: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

11: Material wealth (9)

13: I shall be sick! (3)

14: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)

16: Hear Native American appeal (3)

18: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

20: Nits are possibly more unpleasant (7)

22: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

23: Scold head of state entertained by Ted Turner? That's most astute! (9)

26: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

27: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)

28: 7-down relic? (6,5)

29: Pass mould (3)
Down
1: Blasts most of eucalypt stumps (5)

2: Type of sketch taken from thin album (9)

4: Wicker basket a North American Indian left (5)

5: Roosevelt's undergarment? (5)

7: Worthless even when recycled (3)

8: Mark in Russian bar, empty the night before (5)

9: In my greed I blessed food (7)

12: Former name for joint audition (3)

14: Consumed and digested tea (3)

15: Gold tooth, perhaps, in satellite? (7)

16: Piece of pottery containing drink to make beast tender (9)

17: In fear of wheat head (3)

19: Relieves each emergency service (5)

20: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

21: A revolutionary New England state or an Indian state (5)

22: Casts off shacks (5)

24: Gained a hearing (3)

25: It comes back to the levy (5)




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