Crossword for Sun, 27/Sep/2009

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Across
2: To initiate into communist units, they carry the vital gas. (3, 5, 5)

9: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)

10: Recycled output for larger hollow tree within (4,5)

11: One who leads many after something irrational. (5)

12: Four tight ends holding a private conversation (4-1-4)

14: Classic Australian theatre patrons shocked in Dee Why (4,5)

15: Examine good-looking man? Yes! (5)

16: Theme eradicated partly by an eastern ruler (5)

18: A country inn, a great building (9)

22: An unthinking person for the most part, relative eats red fruit (9)

24: A military cap has turned up satisfactorily (5)

25: ...hence, in this place, furnishings initially included in rent (9)

27: Frost to cover the cake (3)

28: Uncouth chaps met Engel under stress. (4,9)
Down
1: Popular pickpocket is returning, tasteless (7)

2: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)

3: Computer screen is OK with time sped up (7)

4: Boat in which poor crew are caught between port and starboard. (7)

5: Discover treasure hiding in plain sight (5)

6: Beast Irishmen used for fertilizer. (7)

7: Clothilda is carrying a parcel (3)

8: Doctor urges: 'Remove Roy's heart in operation' (7)

13: Exegesis of clue an idiot misunderstood (11)

16: Eastern oxcart confounds blackmailer (7)

17: Hungarian composer on CD extra, perhaps, with Norwegian composer (7)

19: Polite fellow, but a slippery character (7)

20: No saint takes strong drink as a remedy (7)

21: Climactic age opal tossed (7)

23: Instrument on top of tree or shrub (5)

26: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)




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