Crossword for Wed, 30/Jan/2008

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Across
1: Prepares for rest? I object, returning firstborn's gifts. (7)

5: Confine Grandma for a time to make flag (7)

8: Run away with Cockney stride (5)

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

11: Disreputable chaps killed fowl. (5)

12: Deranged person ate tongue (9)

15: Ground dipped around bottom of ditch (7)

17: Former color no longer available? (7)

18: Won back base rate? Done! (7)

20: Man admitting setback for islanders (7)

22: Merry-go-round made from a vehicle with wake-up lamps in front (9)

23: Broke out of cell -- found in prickly sedges (5)

24: Check out flyer for insects after the cricket (4-5)

27: Ornamentation used in the a la mode coronet (5)

28: Refuse graduate upgraded mark (7)

29: Wooden seemed ordinary around Nebraska (7)

Down
1: One might be uplifted if a cockney spoke of arts such as opera. (7)

2: Bar mail of unadorned capital (5,6)

3: More than one garden veggie is spilling the beans, you say? (5)

4: Borders of shoreline spot harboring tiny marine vegetation (7)

5: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)

6: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

7: Expel the ones who show up (7)

10: Damage the object, Mr. Gore, having to do with marriage (7)

13: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)

14: Crazy to clean sons in awful mess (11)

16: Mimic has to leave the ground (4,3)

18: Apricot tart contains cheese (7)

19: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)

20: Sissy's fabric cleaner suggested by the Rev. Spooner (7)

21: Finished holding second half of tour; it's lasted (7)

23: Burdened young man with couple of encumbrances (5)

25: Call for help oddly stops (3)

26: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)





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