(September 6th 2001)
Specs : 15x15 Symmetric.
Theme : <none>

Across
1. Bound cheat extracted (11)
5. Delaware West - secret drink (3)
7. Remote central European mockery (5)
9. What is non sufficit, is not, for eye (3)
10. Contains record, "Lost vessel sails east rather than south" (6)
12. American effort - mixed objective, a rove (8)
13. Suspicious smell - Laura traced it to the maddening competition (3-4)
14. Like an ape is an amputated primate (6)
18. My ring pictures very little (6)
20. Let splendour ring us in vain (7)
22. Gore sounds stringed (8)
24. Values of the depraved in word or deed (6)
25. Record French sound backwards (3)
26. Would seem to be basement in nalp (5)
27. Hit the groove (3)
28. Past actions before frantic descent (11)
Down
1. Save crazy talk for later (8)
2. Note: tiny pole doesn't matter (3-6)
3. Little known facts about endless trip and bottomless container (6)
4. Void article in crown of emperor (5)
6. Decapitated organ leaves almost extinct residue of activity (5)
8. An ill-bred gambler's cube assists gentleman (6)
11. Kings almost mystic (4)
15. Harmony and charge is played (9)
16. Seal sounds like ugly duckling (6)
17. Sin rides members of secret circle (8)
19. Eye jumbled blocks (4)
21. Sickly offer endlessly more (6)
22. Sicker liver (5)
23. Cream ignited in electrical medium (5)
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