Crossword for Fri, 7/Aug/2009

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Across
1: Fastener made from crumpled ripple pac (9)

6: Theologist embraced love's point when medicated. (5)

9: Charles talked about pictures of sea creatures (6,2,5)

10: Moulding material to be included in upcoming miniseries (5)

11: Empty pail beneath sack (7)

12: Hellish painter spoke piffle (5)

14: Start reducing salt? (3)

15: Turns violin over to get pointers? (5)

16: Discharge space-talk (5)

18: Gained a hearing (3)

20: Horse eating western mountain ash (5)

23: Well-brewed litre of this is a symbol of Irish pride. (7)

24: Latin lives of Evita explained within (5)

26: Cook ran; ragout spilled; one might jump to conclusions here? (8,5)

27: Oliver, and not Thomas, Hardy's monogram (5)

28: Dee Star danced in two clubs recently (9)
Down
1: Wanderer features in ones best adage (7)

2: Writing material on usury: Papacy held it back (7)

3: War ultimately helps attacks (5)

4: Hair fetishist's fastener? (4,3)

5: Professional salesmen get up and grow rich (7)

6: Our Foreign Minister embraced German, and in his own country (4,5)

7: More stable, or slide around (7)

8: Wants Lucy's husband to retire shortly (7)

13: One who administers drug treatments puts me in band at Hat Head (9)

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

17: Mrs. Roosevelt East, Trim, Oregon (7)

18: Mean and crafty about being slender and graceful (7)

19: Trainees' ads make TV (7)

21: Ground dipped around bottom of ditch (7)

22: Do any letters appear after number 12? (7)

25: Peace is confirmed with start of ceremony (5)




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