Crossword for Thu, 8/Mar/2012

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Across
1: Endless barbecue arranged for young carnivore (4,3)

5: Lead around other green (7)

9: Mostly, you drink with mystic (5; var.)

10: Ties fraud's spar to the Rev. Spooner (5,4)

11: Reformed drinker helps a water distributor (9,4)

13: Plant in the edges of the first row (5)

14: Proof of intoxication (9)

18: Material for men-at-arms (9)

19: West's last: bottom spade, perhaps (5)

20: See its violent broadcast? (10,3)

23: Poor Marist to freeze in cessation of hostilities (9)

25: Oilwell fireman Red's commercial run (5)

27: Any number follow festival in the Orient (7)

28: Spotted one delinquent leader after parole violation (7)
Down
1: Sounds like a wolf on the coast (3)

2: Decision tree's unusual goal: mirth? (9)

3: Question prisoner and German spirit (9)

4: Behind and down and out (3)

5: Weapon in Clue game (5)

6: Partially affect a steak's flavor (5)

7: Antelope found in oriental country.(5

8: Flower - say, in Victoria's province - to raise (9)

12: Annual earnings can include profit from experience (5)

13: Doesn't move convict housing in a rising (9)

15: Examples of containers (5)

16: Controversial wedge? (3,6)

17: A state, see - one in America - one with an American capital (9)

20: Multiplied by inaccurate items (5)

21: Wool is leading stocking fabric (5)

22: Have misgivings (not half!) about making this gesture? (1-4)

24: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

26: Road without a pole (4)




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