Crossword for Wed, 6/Oct/2010

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Across
1: Flower festival is pointless (5)

3: Multiple notes keeping youth leader youthful (4-5)

8: Mary-Jane crochets her Pop a jumper (11)

11: Non-clerical song (3)

12: In all, just a little peak. (3)

13: Arranged date in Cairo means extermination (11)

14: Fires possibly singe it (7)

15: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)

16: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)

18: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

19: Heavy metal group X (4)

21: Young birds or seals may be heard (7)

23: Fashion term heartless: Feeling up Blossom (6-2-3)

24: A representative may be a scamp (3)

25: Choose to take the top off (3)

26: Black arts and demons concerned with Homer's issue? (4,7)

27: Crooner Mel: famous, loveless, suffering (9)

28: Scotsman turns to notice drifter (5)
Down
1: I need half a month before becoming a saint (9)

2: Particular esteem (7)

4: Water ceremony or fire in a crisis (7)

5: Certain styles of class sat uneasily (7)

6: Illness I catch performing exercises? (13)

7: Hunger after party for senior member of group (5)

9: Runner or dramatist in play (13)

10: Retro gents in exotic parks (5)

17: Stopped? No somehow deferred (9)

19: Shake three times with essence of magnesia (7)

20: Would an Englishman worry about fish? (7)

21: Volcano tops 100-1 odds at last (5)

22: One watching over entrance returns identifying label (7)

23: Refuse to obey a French hooligan (5)




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