Crossword for Tue, 3/Apr/2007

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Across
1: Sarah has friends from France on a Greek island (7)

5: Greek city - in the Adriatic or in Thessaly (7)

8: Encourage horse led with direction. (3)

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

11: Smuggler participating in arms race? (9)

12: Born and raised, it is whispered, to make money (5)

13: Boggy terrain didn't sink Plan C's successor? (9)

15: Reportedly pull down more money at work (5)

17: Herb talked about the fourth dimension (5)

18: A cinerama restored examples of a country's quirks (9)

20: Expel National Service Union leaders and heartbreak will follow (5)

21: Effective arrangement by one decent person (1,4,4)

23: Criticise a computer analysis of famous passage (6,5)

26: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

27: Shorten a game (7)

28: Say again 'Others had food' (7)
Down
1: Hammers small rock outcroppings (7)

2: The foreign policeman dropped me before the end of 'Absolutely Fabulous' (9)

3: 7-down relic? (6,5)

4: Firm rear end (5)

5: Old king led awful dirge for the dreamy poet. (9)

6: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

7: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

10: Head of the Venetians bagging dead duck (5)

12: Pretty girl takes part in outdoor cooking? No just toys (6, 5).

14: Woman losing head after another fall (9)

16: A woman loved what a Roman is content about (9)

17: Belgian port getting rid of an idiot (5)

19: Ancient Semitic deity like very sour egghead (7)

22: How Nero holds one in control (5)

24: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

25: Backblock not all there (3)




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