Crossword for Fri, 27/Jul/2007

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Across
1: Elation leads Anglican Irishman to write of home from abroad. (5)

4: Politician in, ie, outback America is behaving rashly (9)

9: Feel sick from crack? (3)

10: Crooner Mel: famous, loveless, suffering (9)

11: Othello has a little problem with control (7)

12: A faction of lamas on ice-skates, having something to do with a secret society (7)

13: Bobbed beneath in playful attempt to drown journalist. (6, 5)

16: Crew member is one in operating room (3)

17: Aliens set off (3)

18: Feeling threatened, suggested concealing identity (11)

20: Used a weapon on a ringleader in Keanu Reeves' movie (7)

21: Set free from rising to study at night; Im unambitious! (7)

24: This is truncated, or the end's off (9)

26: A vote for part of the year (3)

28: Name assumed to be no dupe's my disguise (9)

29: Perfect conviction ends trial (5)
Down
1: Spinner step (3)

2: Mostly, you drink with mystic (5; var.)

3: Flare for clean-up time (5)

4: Disturbed intruder, pet disturbed. (11)

5: Standard style of music rejected (3)

6: Kept definitely in step (9)

7: Thoroughly dismissed - twice! (3,3,3)

8: Exotic cider as cocktail (7)

11: Backblock not all there (3)

12: Pick up line for first man swinging both ways? (5,2,4)

14: Gets behind in cooking Creole dish (9)

15: Sadly, Tim agreed and left the country (9)

17: Pauses awkwardly after error but steadies nerves (5,2)

19: Period email feature (3)

22: Rightly considered, in my opinion, an O. T. heroine (5)

23: A month to live, perhaps (5)

25: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)

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




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