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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