Crossword for Wed, 26/Aug/2009

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Across
1: Old role for paintings that trick the eye (2,3)

4: Dine and drink with fan (9)

8: Unsettling sound from eagle's nest (5)

9: Admire well-designed sceptre (7)

11: Artist's entrance (7)

14: The Dane's suggested destination for sisters. (7)

15: Believer with no head for bank job (5)

17: Turkey breast, for instance, comes from something in grain (5,4)

18: John Hancock in great US maneuvers (9)

19: Posed in glossy fabric (5)

20: Arouse interest in Scripture verses after a time (7)

21: Hold spellbound in the tenth rally (7)

23: Musical direction for an old poet (7)

26: Notes spent in Germany (5)

28: Stabbed, bark 'A Kennedy' (9)

29: Articles in 'Divers Times' (5)
Down
1: Fling an item of furniture (3,5,5)

2: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

3: Not here? No, no! (5)

4: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

5: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

6: Shrubs dot the French mountain range, providing a tinge of russet (9)

7: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)

10: Grave study: code-breaking? (13)

12: Leaving firm when dating (5,6)

13: Stud was working with tiny fragments of wood (7)

14: Nearly nail half of veterans for childishness (7)

16: Great Dane running about outside caf (3-6)

22: Rates of movement for the last politician entering it backwards (5)

24: Capture ten heading north (3)

25: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

27: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)




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