Crossword for Tue, 9/Jan/2007

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Across
1: Article was definite: It said Canadian fish and elk combined can have disastrous results (especially if python is added). (3, 6, 6)

3: Offer one's hand to an accountant by way of an alternative bid. (15)

8: Half disapprove of old king (3)

9: First get a French weapon. (3)

10: Song about chaps in the country (7)

14: Squaddies took in lecture (5)

16: The scales tip from bringing in Turkish money (5)

18: A group performing with energy 'The Untouchables' e.g. (5)

20: Boxer Max returned, holding heroin, for treatment (5)

21: Treason destroyed Washington insider (7)

23: Vicar regularly outdated technology (1.1.1.)

25: Mink, for one, may fly when theres trouble (3)

27: Powerful individual accommodates American doctor connected with parts of hospital drama (5,10)

28: Transplanting gave gnarled beet place to grow? (9, 6)
Down
1: Silent, cat backs away from it (5)

2: Formulate a question in mathematical terms (9)

4: Draw a stomach uprising (3)

5: Wander around stove (5)

6: Set display on the Fourth of July (5)

7: Child, bask by the sound (3)

11: Gardener's concoction left in a lot (5)

12: Egad, a retracting saw (5)

13: Birds in white trousers (5)

15: Leaders actually dont expect people to be skillful (5)

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

19: Within, another onerous marsh bird (5)

20: Run over Martian explorer (5)

22: Scale Ten after taxes (3)

24: Control escape (3)

26: Rinse out pine compound (5)




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