Crossword for Tue, 27/Jan/2009

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Across
1: Short bloke discontinued hike (3)

3: Missed hoax set up to trap Sunday drunk outside saloon entrance (4,5,2)

8: Observed no Knight (5)

9: Streetcar crashed into litterbug, perhaps? (9)

12: Location of cheating, fiercer gender (4,9)

14: Cull out from top ten (3)

15: Law, say, constraining trade union leaders (7)

16: Direct object (3)

17: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

18: Fumbles about and trips (7)

20: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)

21: Novel deviance in the movie? (5,2,6)

23: Tarheels buried by swarming Hornet club (9)

25: More than one garden veggie is spilling the beans, you say? (5)

27: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)

28: Totally lacking a lofty plaything (3)
Down
1: Gained a hearing (3)

2: Person pressing a lawsuit torched one reptile? (9)

3: Refined women suppressing desires, principally for boys (7)

4: Call for help oddly stops (3)

5: Woody is to eviscerate Human Resources, that is (7)

6: I turn, lost, in Italian city (5)

7: Fashion term heartless: Feeling up Blossom (6-2-3)

10: Doctor, flu fee can indicate a condition of being well off! (9)

11: E.g., told story about cave-men (11)

13: Set out again for back stove (9)

16: Me in a green tent's ultimate in harmony (9)

18: Upright drunk's interjection interrupts the others briefly (7)

19: Suppressed and overturned, it's taken flight (7)

22: Entertain one of nine daughters of Mnemosyne (5)

24: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

26: Pen extracts articles from satay (3)




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