Crossword for Thu, 4/Mar/2010

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Across
1: Beings massing or migrating (9)

6: Requires reporting massages (5)

9: Dangerous undertaking skiers in busy S bend (5,8)

10: One Miss Horn takes a tumble with guys having outlaw spirits (11)

12: 23% of Scandinavians backing leaders (3)

14: Unbelievable boast in part of the castle (7)

15: Serious article penned by Hemingway (7)

16: Medicine was our connection, we hear (7)

19: Assembly said Dracula's sick (7)

21: Period email feature (3)

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

24: Paraphrasing 'A Certain Sport': 'Wait till next year!' (13)

27: I, astride colt's mother with Donny's sister (5)

28: Restricting agent's rant about ill-conceived trade (9)

Down
1: Loathing for leader leaving platform (5)

2: Restaurant employees opposed to stuffing fish (7)

3: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

4: Staying out when it's dark (7)

5: One wink, or forty (4-3)

6: 27-across about starting off 1-down world unconditionally (2,3,2,4)

7: I am reported to leer (3)

8: Call for help oddly stops (3)

11: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

12: I've lost struggle (3)

13: African region of birth (5)

14: Bound to hear what they did about the leak? (5)

17: Capture perfect score in review (3)

18: English poet writes about head of Scottish queen (7)

19: She plays in a small enclosure on one street (7)

20: Foolish fancy makes him race around (7)

23: Transplanted tissue from, originally, George Raft (5)

24: Plan to return with woman (3)

25: Crew member is one in operating room (3)

26: Song is a gas (3)





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