Crossword for Wed, 28/Nov/2007

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Across
1: Nothing we have to pay (3)

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

9: Ironically to the point (5)

11: Draw the knot (3)

12: Expel National Service Union leaders and heartbreak will follow (5)

13: Dogged pamphlet for the auditor (7)

15: Got excited by unusual tulip (3,2)

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

17: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)

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

20: What's left when you burn the tree (3)

22: Total for the match (5)

23: Help to lift weight - this might show how (7)

24: King John's last to find out (5)

25: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

27: Cooped up in Essex: pelicans, it would turn out (5)

28: Mixed greens and teals, so dad's remodeled (6,5)

29: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)
Down
1: Gold tooth, perhaps, in satellite? (7)

2: Ape, bird, teal, buck (7)

4: Take Chair in university (3)

5: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)

6: Canadian water ordered for regal tea-break (5,4,4)

7: Drunkard turns to observe drunkard (7)

8: 'Beat it, mister!' said con man (7)

10: How a diver might marry (4,3,6)

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

18: D*** petrol pump sample? (7)

19: Injured girl with sword. (7)

20: Deep sleep, father recalled, is fitting (7)

21: Mortified humans - fifty per cent felt great pity (7)

26: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)




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