Crossword for Mon, 27/Oct/2008

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Across
1: Inactive side (3)

3: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)

9: Play faster in last 3/4 of piece with bass held backward (5,2)

10: Initially, teaching language using few words (5)

11: Go over the highlights of a racehorse's comeback (5)

12: One annoying to Republican advisor (9)

13: Tumultuous, so I tour around (7)

15: Powerless to move, as shiner tremendously shows (5)

17: Adds money owed to the government in hearing (5)

19: Approaching related band, apparently (7)

21: Traded partners for sprint ~ (5,4)

24: Country breaking through anarchy (5)

25: Skin gash exists (5)

26: Hikers' path around Virginia is hard work (7)

27: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

28: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)
Down
1: Attentive old bachelor, one who waits on others (9)

2: 'Beat it, mister!' said con man (7)

3: Oil depots destroyed ocean habitats (4,5)

4: Record that it was to insult (2,3,4)

5: . . . before the last apprentice is put in the ground (5)

6: Eights had to race again, we hear, concerning fish spawn. (2, 3)

7: Settler-constructed bridge (7)

8: Take on popular rascal (5)

14: Style of western pasta (9)

15: Clarifier is followed by mixed signals (9)

16: Sailor Paul in oilcloth (9)

18: Assembly said Dracula's sick (7)

20: Ruin Aga; ruin Paraguay Indian (7)

21: Shy away from women's clothing (5)

22: On return, for example, put back costume (3-2)

23: He told tales about a love with foresight. (5)




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