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Date: 28 Jun 2009
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Across
1. Author of Birdsong, Charlotte Gray and Engleby (6)
4. Country with the world's largest population (5)
8. The defense by an accused person of having been elsewhere at the time an alleged offense was committed (5)
9. ------- plague, Black Death of the 1300s (7)
10. Collective name for garments worn by people (7)
11. Familiar way to address one's grandmother (4)
12. The juice or vital circulating fluid of a plant (3)
14. ---- Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII (4)
15. ---- Office, the US President's domain (4)
18. A devise, person or enterprise that proves to be a failure (3)
21. A system used for brevity or secrecy of communication, in which arbitrarily chosen words, letters, or symbols are assigned definite meanings (4)
23. Facility (7)
25. Italian alcoholic aperitif obtained from the infusion of bitter herbs, aromatic plants and fruit in alcohol and water (7)
26. Die by inhaling water (5)
27. ---- Picasso, famous spanish painter (5)
28. A child during the earliest period of its life (6)
Down
1. Authoritarian dictator of Spain from 1936 - 1975 (6)
2. Mythical horse-like animal with a horn (7)
3. Given a nonhereditary noble rank by a sovereign because of personal merit or for services rendered to the country (8)
4. Caribbean island of which the capital is Havana (4)
5. Situated within (5)
6. A mode of pronunciation, as pitch or tone, emphasis pattern, or intonation, characteristic of or peculiar to the speech of a particular person, group, or locality (6)
7. A deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity (5)
13. The ancient Greek god of the sea (8)
16. State in the southwestern region of the United States, whose capital city is Phoenix (7)
17. Ice mass that covers less than 50 000 km? of land area (6)
19. ----- Attenborough, BBC wildlife and environmental documentary narrator and presenter (5)
20. Young swan (6)
22. ----- happy, (5)
24. A ring of light that surrounds an object or person's head in religious iconography (4)