Crossword for Sun, 14/Dec/2008

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Across
1: The fashionable set travel together. (2, 5)

5: Eat after hollow enclosure is discovered (5,2)

9: Helga excels coming back with a two under par (5)

10: Mixed a Popsicle with soda (5,4)

11: A Tudor I remodeled for a listener (7)

13: Greek city - in the Adriatic or in Thessaly (7)

14: Civil libertarian sends building uprights (4,5)

15: Clear initial rubbish in drain (3)

16: Behind and down and out (3)

18: Dance in Spooner's very cold prison (9)

22: Abnormally mintier in the meantime (7)

24: Fee I'm raising in Jersey (7)

25: Athletic practice for period of examination (4,5)

26: Warning! The French return to take up weapons.(5)

28: Nut hounds famed Arizona shooter for something to deaden the noise (7)

29: In retrospect, no howls of laughter sounded deliberate (5,2)
Down
1: First aid for sprains is common in the arctic. (3, 4)

2: Feel sick from crack? (3)

3: Dance to old home recording (3 4)

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

5: A legendary string player, he joins us after turning professional (7)

6: Witty remark, for example, about constant batterer (7)

7: Made clear how in directions (5)

8: Illegally hunted for a flower for a revolutionary dunderhead (7)

12: Cloth was dug up! (5)

15: Maverick starting to buck in wind (5)

16: Perishable candy (7)

17: Damage the object, Mr. Gore, having to do with marriage (7)

18: 3-down Juvenile tramp attacking rook (7,6)

19: Templates lacking a bit of taste for houses of worship (7)

20: Meatier concoction from, say, Dubai (7)

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

23: Send back stopwatch, as an example (5)

27: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)




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