No 9632, Wednesday, 09 Sep 09, M. Manna

Too many CD's, DD's & E's for my liking

ACROSS
1 - Shame! Don’t believe it! (9) - DISCREDIT [CD]
6 - They have a sting in the tail in Aristophanes’ play (5) - WASPS [DD]
9 - Grant prize for an advertisement about hostilities (5) - A{WAR}D
10 - Concerned with rhythm? Not too soon, either (5,4) - ABOUT TIME [DD]
11 - Utter refutation of housing list request? (4,6) - {FLAT} {DENIAL}
12 - Very old fashioned ‘Egad!’ (4) - AGED*
14 - Tied my money so made it impossible to proceed (7) - S{TYMIED*}
15 - Can make it possible to understand (7) - SEEABLE [E]
17 - Their dictators failed twice to dominate world powers (7) - GERMANS [E] Something wrong in the grammar here!!
19 - Made list to rob items in this English city (7) - BRISTOL*
20 - Still no wind for many in the river (4) - CA{L}M
22 - Paid to have come to rest (6,4) - {SETTLE D}{OWN}
25 - The sap too stupid to get manipulator (9) - OSTEOPATH*
26 - Longed to have a civil engineer (5) - ACHED Anno beats me
27 - Extract metal from freshwater fish (5) - SMELT [DD]
28 - Almost certain to give yield (9) - SUR(-e){RENDER}
DOWN
1 - Ward off fellow small man (5) - DWAR*{F}
2 - Rating at the bar? (3,6) - {SEA} {LAWYER} Where is the definition? A Sea Lawyer is a type of fish also
3 - Real Madrid, turning out, display a butterfly (3,7) - RED ADMIRAL*
4 - At end I got crooked doctor discharged (7) - {DR}A{INED*} A from ?
5 - Strong hardworking persons from an ancient city (7) - TROJANS [DD]
6 - Have the power of combining ideas with pointed verbal effect (4) - WATT Anno eludes me
7 - Smart cheat (5) - STING [DD]
8 - Pretty plant becoming dreadful weed in time (9) - SP{EEDW*}ELL
13 - Purposeful muse (10) - DELIBERATE [DD]
14 - Same as perspicacious (9) - SAGACIOUS [E]
16 - One spoken for by ringing (9) - BETROTHED [CD]
18 - Repeated alternation in decision making (7) - SEESAWS [CD]
19 - He delights in bloody deeds (7) - BUTCHER [CD]
21 - Turner’s state of agitation curtailed (5) - LATHE(-r)
23 - At the bottom of an emotional state (5) - NADIR [E]
24 - Place where a soldier is assigned for duty (4) - POST [E]

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