Crossword for Thu, 28/May/2009

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Across
1: Balls thrown at gophers (9)

5: Coal remaining at the end of a month (5)

8: Keep rolling and swelling, Doc! (7)

10: Chaps follow Grundy on island course (7)

11: Involving ceremony within Victoria, for one (2,5)

12: Loves turncoat in extremely raunchy speechmaking (7)

13: Looks like an eyesore, sounds like an eyesore (3)

14: Thirteen broken adzes repaired (6,5)

15: Discounting losing one's sense of humour? (8,3)

20: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)

22: Little bitty lines on a letter from Athens (7)

23: Trail after an uprising beginning to form (7)

24: When you work it out, Alfie, we fish (7)

26: Prudent law enforcers endlessly import information technology (7)

27: Like powerful uncle in Indian state? (5)

28: Happy faces disturb economist (9)
Down
1: Idle talkers to go, with one final word about the vessel (7)

2: We blame knitter for small woolly jumper (3-4)

3: Nag male, starting with pain in the neck (7)

4: Start reducing salt? (3)

5: Where Handel wrote short measure on organ (7)

6: 29-acrosss kid almost climbing 14-down obstacle, keeping movers in daze (13)

7: Lustful inside, eager and young (5)

9: Dangerous undertaking skiers in busy S bend (5,8)

12: Leaders of Orioles and Rangers stick in the dugout? (3)

16: Valor of Homer is incredible (7)

17: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)

18: Upset now, pout and confess (3,2,2)

19: Interminably bother crook for one pasta dish (7)

21: Sees unusual section (7)

22: Ring around Louisiana and part of Florida (5)

25: Sound of river crossing (3)




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