Crossword for Tue, 3/Mar/2009

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Across
1: In hindsight, schedule recorded for a blast (9)

6: Junker left Alaskan city heading north (5)

9: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

10: Pass mould (3)

11: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

13: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)

15: Excessive praise for bad spelling ain't aloud (9)

17: Condemned without love, like the Vatican (5)

18: Icy turning, for example, on top (5)

19: Got used to western city after it eliminated a lot of noise (7,2)

20: Worthless even when recycled (3)

21: Risk of pole womans end being upset after handy beer (11)

24: Startled, grabs sailor (3)

25: Conclude a recitation off-key (11)

27: Count Tadeusz's first friend (5)

28: Is it a chop that's nutty or a nut that's chopped? (9)
Down
2: Heavy metal group X (4)

3: She's providing us with a minder (9)

4: Excessive melodrama ruined their acts (9)

5: Go over and bring harness-racing horse back (5)

6: New roles for a flop (5)

7: Pick up line for first man swinging both ways? (5,2,4)

8: Former name for joint audition (3)

9: Aliens set off (3)

12: One later enters, like, with matching sides (11)

14: South of France, an African country (5)

15: Hangs tough, concealing apprehension (5)

16: Ideas about teaching assistant marginalia (9)

17: Self-indulgent life of dolt upset by musical (5,4)

21: Virago would dwell on male chromosome (5)

22: Accommodate bear (3,2)

23: Top card? Excellent! (3)

24: Child is to depart, finally (3)

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




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