Crossword for Sat, 3/Mar/2007

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Across
1: Links to some 7-down (5)

4: Butts in front of people, breaking drinks (5)

7: Cull out from top ten (3)

9: Defusing timer incorrectly can lead to this! (13)

10: Five kills one. (3)

11: More than one grown-up kids' tender hearts god broke? (9)

14: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)

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

19: Young horses mistakenly resign early without hesitation (9)

22: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

23: Something good made by mini drink packer! (6,7)

26: Song is a gas (3)

27: At hand no competent help (5)

28: Crow circles front of gate in Eastern fort (5)
Down
1: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

2: Confuse Garfield, dashing back inside (5)

3: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)

5: Speak silently or indiscreetly (5)

6: Downright fine (5)

7: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)

8: Worthless even when recycled (3)

11: Shorebirds' tricks (5)

12: How to eat the heart of marsupial (3)

13: Girl mostly into turning inside out - it's never ending! (11)

15: Gorilla taking head off at it's base! (3)

16: Call for help oddly stops (3)

17: Hellish center for immigration? (5)

18: Totally lacking a lofty plaything (3)

20: Several loads hide in Scotland (5)

21: I got by in Los Angeles or a North African state (5)

22: Vagrant going over a little river to a foreign country (5)

23: Ends leisure on a field (3)

24: Startled, grabs sailor (3)

25: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)




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