Crossword for Fri, 27/Oct/2006

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Across
1: Queen forced to meet irate nation? (5,10)

5: Criticise a computer analysis of famous passage (6,5)

7: Is Pat suitable? (3)

8: You audibly ram partner (3)

10: Be prepared with amnesties for truancy (11)

12: Smudge reams of misprints (5)

14: The Lilliputians' citizen army? (9)

16: No stove can allegedly help to make a drink (9)

19: Drunk held firmly (5)

21: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

23: A mark of the classics - but eroded, in retrospect (3)

25: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

26: Invention to trick four into a stupor (11)

29: Cheap place to drink and pick up ballplayers by night's end (7,8)
Down
1: He adopts park tree (5)

2: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

3: Have bananas now (3)

4: Perhaps men sit and eat in a cafe (9)

6: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

7: Taxi omitted going around gnome (5)

9: Sound of river crossing (3)

11: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)

12: Rebs to can fresh edible crustacean from southern states (5,4)

13: Cleaning aid possessed by Fragonard (3)

15: Child is to depart, finally (3)

17: Uncovered selection is of considerable size (5)

18: Copy of top ten missing (3)

20: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)

22: See, you are a cad. (3)

24: Proficient in arithmetic, starting with short division (5)

27: Sister gets nothing, we hear (3)

28: Former name for joint audition (3)




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