Crossword for Mon, 29/Oct/2007

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Across
1: Toothpaste brand at Target? (3)

3: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

8: Classical musician composing her opus (7)

9: The outbursts one hears are hers (7)

11: Grant again drew one crookedly (7)

13: Point to friendly crowd (5)

14: Told a story about Rocky, a bull, and sang to sleep (9)

17: Little Mermaid's voice overhead (5)

18: Confines for periods of time after onset of chickenpox (5)

19: Moldering, moldering panhandler? (4,5)

20: We hear actor Paul is one on the way up (5)

22: Religious observance improves personality a little (7)

25: Lost pirates wander aimlessly (7)

26: Dance degree takes the cake (3,4)

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

29: Rohmer hiding unit of Resistance (3)
Down
1: Love affair for one like Othello, we hear (5)

2: Boy gripping top of pine tree (5)

3: Fiction position (3)

4: Repudiating a pig that's eating out (9)

5: Sexy Liberal goes to small United States Territory (5)

6: Fake disability after fifty (9)

7: Collector is slow mover garnering southern selenium (9)

10: Nunn completes more circuits than Gore coming around Canary Island seaport (3,6)

12: Slows down before a drive in a fast lane (4,5)

14: Tears material, tears material (9)

15: Part of lower body is slow to make laws (9)

16: In the act an organ is brought forth (9)

21: Heretic repented, holding tissue (5)

23: Muse about weed on top of Olympus (5)

24: First significant battle with many bees. (5)

27: Backblock not all there (3)




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