ACROSS
1 Live with 4 say and object when about to get into trouble (2,3,2)
5 Drink and quarrel before meal (4,3)
9 New people after gold in this county (7)
10 Reckon with Bill (7)
11 Unwilling? (9)
12 Well informed salesman returns with drug (5)
13 Some tallish rubber plant (5)
15 Unfamiliar to realist philosopher (9)
17 Emasculated star acted oddly (9)
19 An area of interest actually existing on Malta (5)
22 Talk foolishly of power and speed (5)
23 10 out of 10 say plump Gospel writer succeeded (4,5)
25 College boy meets a former soccer star (7)
26 A long short story is new to the French (7)
27 Inheritance of the French money (7)
28 Cease to gamble in play (7)

DOWN
1 Rings about Italian outlaws (7)
2 Author's father outside converted store (7)
3 They may be rented when Heath goes back to Sweden (5)
4 Severely criticize Kate dancing with a constituent (4,5)
5 Poet in black and red (5)
6 Meet in battle (9)
7 Whore loses son's musical instrument (7)
8 A sudden movement by eastern goddess (7)
14 A vessel's propeller? (9)
16 Nonce lied about laziness (9)
17 Clubs animal and fish somewhere in Massachusetts (4,3)
18 Town with parliamentary constituencies shown up over home (7)
20 A change of rule by Italy over a jellyfish (7)
21 Mother's wise system of treatment to ease tension (7)
23 Abstain from food and drink around English saint's day (5)
24 Changed the position of five trapped in irregular mode (5)

2:49pm Friday 14th March 2008

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