Crossword for Sun, 29/Jul/2007

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Across
1: Issue of number one detergent brand being withdrawn (7)

5: Leading Bolshevik holding the stage (7)

9: Free for all by lack of padlocked freight compartments (2,5,6)

10: Garments for many knights, thanks to British poets (7)

13: Resolute British detectives in action (7)

14: Have a go at draw (7)

15: At first, actors I directed did poorly (5)

17: Tied down holding back fighting (5)

18: Advice on clues to be anagrammed (7)

19: Have a shot about elderly misfortune (7)

22: There is a Santa, perhaps (7)

24: A little sports car, let to harassed Southern belle (8,5)

27: Strike one with medium iron (7)

28: A teetotaller in an imitation coat wielding a pick-axe (7)
Down
1: German painter in a southern state (5)

2: Lived in whirlpool I bathed in (9)

3: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

4: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)

5: Model spoken about is reserved (5)

6: Sadly curtail urge for land cultivation (11)

7: Redesigned color name tag (5)

8: Gambled on wicked stunt-man (9)

11: Wizards covered in liquor and beer...it might be for charity (7, 4)

12: Posed in glossy fabric (5)

14: With greater reason for a riot I riot (1,8)

15: Tie torn coats (7)

16: Cutthroat congressman's back in lifeless Ohio primary (9)

20: He told tales about a love with foresight. (5)

21: Screams Yes! around line 50 (5)

23: Troubled tenor with a transposition (2,3,5)

25: Thumb Drum? (3)

26: Cull out from top ten (3)




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