Crossword for Tue, 27/Oct/2009

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Across
1: Overcome by disappointment from the rare bonk going awry (11)

5: Cot is unmade for short month in fall (3)

7: Intruders bury proles in pieces (11).

10: Start reducing salt? (3)

11: Dreads mistake in time-share (7)

12: Get sun darkened between California, Iowa, and city in Italy (7)

13: Its neat for a vessel to have this appearance (9)

16: I dispense playing cards in a perfect manner (5)

18: A long way to go for a monomaniacal musician (5)

19: Grow envious with seabird sounding environmental (4,5)

20: Announced at first match: 'You are on the net. This is unprofessional.' (7)

22: 'Betrayal' is a theatrical success (7)

25: One politician's a brat (3)

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

27: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)

28: Clearances for the first couple of characters to find answers. (11)
Down
1: Disturbance is the robbery (5)

2: Cat linked stories to the underworld (8-5)

3: Sculpted torso brings cheers (5)

4: Don't obstruct slippery eel packer (4,5)

5: Frequently decimal? (5)

6: Sailor Paul in oilcloth (9)

8: Startled, grabs sailor (3)

9: Scenery has to get down by starting 12-across (7,6)

13: Topics I am prepared to make congenial (9)

14: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

15: Articles by the uncentred Hazards - they usually indicate omissions (9)

17: I am reported to leer (3)

21: Thick maple growing wild (5)

22: Uneven ships cable made from hemp (5)

23: Cull out from top ten (3)

24: Very loud intrusion spoiled its cross words (5)




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