Crossword for Thu, 27/Dec/2012

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Across
1: California owl sounds like being in a partnership of sorts? (7)

5: Cora acts indecisively (7)

9: 2 Be in control, name the photos! (4,3,5)

10: Physicist failed to finish food before a trip round sun (7)

11: Upset top duo; I went and confessed (5,2,2,2)

12: Start reducing salt? (3)

14: Reduces strain from years of tension (7)

16: Put out a journal in a foreign language (7)

18: The very young at times dash around seniors with energy (7)

20: Can eels freely bathe? (7)

21: Pen extracts articles from satay (3)

22: Does the wandering hero duly hostess perplex? (7)

24: Banker maintains a Greek swimmer (7)

26: Performs skinning of a flopping fish on the table (7)

27: Zoo custodians hear significant animal noises (7)

28: Maniac is loose in a cult (7)
Down
2: No hefty role at sea for ship-launcher (5,2,4)

3: Native American involved in drug problem exposed (5)

4: Mountaineers drawing female inside hot springs (7)

5: A button on the microwave belongs to berets or fedoras, upon reflection (7)

6: Pitch out heartlessly the cards. (5)

7: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

8: Find out scout (3)

9: Except for last couple, Crosby croons passages (9)

12: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)

13: Returned, blushing about departure (9)

15: Sound of river crossing (3)

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

19: Comedies are strange, I assert (7)

20: Advice on clues to be anagrammed (7)

22: City that cowboys used to avoid (5)

23: Desire tale filled with energy (5)

24: Telekinesis pinches Albanian coin (3)

25: Copy of top ten missing (3)




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