Crossword for Thu, 31/May/2007

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Across
1: Choose to take the top off (3)

3: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)

5: Dance to old home recording (3 4)

9: Weary of ingredients in butterfat, I guess (7)

10: ... and soon it will be read as etc. (3,2,2)

11: Inspects old radical for a moment (5, 6)

13: Sounds like a wolf on the coast (3)

14: Dizzy Ben is a playwright (5)

15: Crackers in bulk? Yes (3-4)

17: Continuously flows from the right to enter a competitive group on board (7)

20: A great drink. (5)

21: Therefore, finish off this bit of work (3)

22: 7-down relic? (6,5)

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

24: Problems involving Rhode Island clergy (7)

27: Stabs at centre-left defences (7)

28: Pass mould (3)

29: Attempt test (3)
Down
1: Inactive side (3)

2: Worthless even when recycled (3)

3: One applying pressure to eight mixed up in back rent? (9)

4: Certain engines stall less jerkily (7)

5: Loves turncoat in extremely raunchy speechmaking (7)

6: Stopped and looked after blowing top (5)

7: Difficult book about Baltic currency (11)

8: 28 Invitation for man to get a cent on November 5? (5,3,3,3)

11: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

12: Missed hoax set up to trap Sunday drunk outside saloon entrance (4,5,2)

16: Non-discounted rate for newly split grain (4,5)

18: Agrees that a course should be forwarded to the primary school (7)

19: Fell limply and quietly in a squalid area extremely exhausted (7)

22: No hay for big punch fabricator (5)

25: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

26: Looks like an eyesore, sounds like an eyesore (3)




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