Crossword for Sat, 9/Aug/2008

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Across
1: Little weight spoils head honcho in sophisticated secondary institute (7,6)

9: Diamonds for newlywed, coating grand frail spanner (3-6)

10: Story about a little boy -- save for later discussion (5)

11: Speak slowly, with upward lilt at the beginning (5)

12: Increase in force may finish in soccer riot (9)

14: One who tempts peril grabbing leopard's head (7)

16: Hawaiian island porch. (5)

17: Utter poppycock! He was a Dutch painter (5)

20: Americans look for no revolution (7)

22: The foreign policeman dropped me before the end of 'Absolutely Fabulous' (9)

24: Pivotal round total ultimately in par (5)

26: Argument in the meeting (5)

27: Settle standard kilometer (4)

28: How a diver might marry (4,3,6)
Down
1: Pound Falcon end into football field (5)

2: Tasman has a way for French theologian, Peter (7)

3: Its strange to go back to a novice for a wall decoration (5)

4: Rally has promotion I created primarily in a new way (9)

5: The percolator, repulsively, contains a pancake (5)

6: Iridescent stone contains quirk having to do with vision (7)

7: Bale-out? No! In French Mediterranean nation? (7)

8: Old English mixed into edited cryptic shows exceptional maturity (9)

13: Created synopsis, but a detail I omitted is wrong (9)

15: Drink is flowing, by the sound of it, where Magna Carta was signed (9)

18: Piece based around FBI agents (7)

19: Nag male, starting with pain in the neck (7)

21: King of the sun and new moon (7)

23: Allow meathead into mine opening (5)

24: Ring around edge of table leaf... (5)

25: Kitchen appliance is pumpkin-colored, apart from the top (5)




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