Thursday, May 21, 2009

Arthur


Across
1 M's amoral history spun into heroic rise and fall by this fellow (3,6,6)
9 Consciousness sent out for stratagem about hunger (9)
10 Provoke noisy arguments (5)
11 Batman was law-abiding (7)
12 Cross king had fellow thrashed (7)
14 Old money managed to get into football club (5)
15 In olden days, men had skinheads call back (4)
16 Attempt to add colour to Hayward movie cut short (4)
18 Apt description of seaman (4)
19 How a gambolling horse might be halted (4)
20 South African greeting for black man thought well of in India (5)
23 European fellow follows another (7)
24 Typical military leader grabs girl (7)
25 Used hemp smoke and this for description of speed? (5)
27 Angry kung fu star stands in for one licensed to kill in small
quantity (9)
28 Work by Tennyson, or Elvis? (6,2,3,4)

Down
1 Vicious female has women, but not men, put in rack (3-4)
2 Once and Future Conferences? (5,6)
3 Geissler, fashionable and wealthy, granted prefix His Excellency (8)
4 Hero of African campaign being slain by Apollo, source of Arthurian comedy (5,6)
5 Understand ocean noise (5)
6 Singular debt arrangement - a thing borrowed by Caesar? (6)
7 Knocking back liqueur, halo slips from director (3)
8 Gave way to used yttrium instead of tungsten (8)
12 Legendary adulterer's feverish loins are to receive tender loving
care (3,8)
13 Dread nemeses appearing in 4's film 'Champions of Belfast' (7,2,2)
17 'Open Sesame!' say leaders of those who make tea (8)
18 Based on precedent, religious head getting into artificial insemination (1,6)
21 Fund account work not yet done (7)
22 Laid back about perversity? Abysmal! (6)
26 His brother had head chopped off, alright? (3)
27 Sign out the front of Camelot? (1,1,1)

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Huh?!


Across
1 Shakily (lacking selenium), I jolt father whose face fell (3,3,3,5)
9 Stale fart daughter expelled - an Australian tourist attraction! (5)
11 Impact alert devices for those crashing about (9)
12 G-man gets us killer shirt (6)
13 Originally raped Sabines to rattle some Orthodox Christians (8)
15 Wow! Doctor reborn on the radio?! (3,4)
16 WASP's throne's thrown (7)
17 Due to hear some poetry (3)
18 Farewell meal for Australian churned madly (7)
20 Shocking variety of grace from choir (7)
23 Boomerangs certain to interrupt short sleep (8)
24 Declared coup d'etats (6)
26 With Rod absent, how to catch one name amongst many? (9)
27 Francis 'Boy' Bufflehead (5)
28 Extraordinary article on noisy power unit by canonical writer (4,3,7)

Down
2 Pinochet respected for nothing (7)
3 Sailor quietly tosses ass cloth (4)
4 Beat skull of predator (10)
5 Surprised at fat composer playing some other fellow (13)
6 Control the function of talk in sports (7)
7 Is unhelpful in bringing the metric system in? Depends (7)
8 What is the meaning of this question for Jersey? (3,3)
10 Nuts over fellow with bad haircut? Australian shocked (7,6)
14 By his word, Dan certainly holds martial arts to be
entertainment (5,5)
18 How scar was problematic where new models are exposed (3,4)
19 Hesitation before sanction of prosecutor of folk religion (7)
21 Fashionable retinue well organised (2,5)
22 Lord and subjects revered them (3-3)
25 Drink noisily, like cha (4)

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