Crossword for Tue, 27/Jun/2006

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Across
1: Not moving yet (5)

5: Encircle waffle (5)

8: Perform part of play (3)

9: Ask for bit of bread with melted cheese (7)

11: 'True men' is false (9)

12: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

13: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

15: Very clever fish ain't at sea (9)

17: Material wealth (9)

18: Former name for joint audition (3)

20: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

21: Woman losing head after another fall (9)

25: First punch in the middle of the little beast, then take a look at it. (7)

26: Attempt test (3)

27: Casts off shacks (5)

28: Reliable noise (5)

Down
1: Plots get Cuban revolutionary leader in a terrible mess (7)

2: Language making a comeback in modern Italy (5)

3: There is no commoner old coin (5)

4: Examples of containers (5)

6: Dry out. Heated? Dry out (9)

7: Make money and set out to be serious (7)

8: Is Pat suitable? (3)

10: Poles in trouble with character from Greece (7)

13: Fruit taken in in inn (9)

14: Correspondence from landlords (7)

15: Throw out faulty nib (3)

16: Frost to cover the cake (3)

17: Records that could be hits (7)

19: Odysseus' first requirement - to catch you like Polyphemus? (3-4)

21: Run around near a stadium (5)

22: Flower festival is pointless (5)

23: Singers in a special Tosca production (5)

24: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)





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