,ÍACROSS&DOWNrHÁ3w3œXE1.2cî÷¿.AUSSIE.RULES....M.P.M.E.E.H.PSUBMARINE.ADIEUT.R.R.G.L.S.N.LREASSURE.BENGALI.G...A...H.L.UKEENEST.CLOSEUPE...N.EMU.L...SAPPLIED.RADIANTL.U.G...R...L.UINFAMY.NATURISMG.F.A.O.J.P.M.PHOIST.STOPPRESST.E.I.L.N.E.T....RECTO.GYRATE..------.-----....-.-.-.-.-.-.----------.------.-.-.-.-.-.-.---------.-------.-...-...-.-.--------.--------...-.---.-...--------.--------.-.-...-...-.-------.---------.-.-.-.-.-.-.------.----------.-.-.-.-.-.-....-----.------.TCCCC5 Puzzle #8Bruce McKenzie (US), Theresa Cunningham (Can), Dave McKeegan (UK)©2000 (3) (Explanations in notepad)Usual series is rough in this game (6,5)Start off speechless with anger and resentment (7)You'll need them if you're rigging fights (5)English jet fighter made an assessment and left the country (9)See 1 acrossWhirlwind? (4)Head off switchboard operator's request for rental (9)One's laid over top of house (7)Quit the game of smut, plus pulp fiction? (4,2,6)Left bus to horse around in underwater craft (9)Take this girl out, I say! (6,1,5)Notice you said goodbye (5)Engineer uses rear console (8)Gal pursuing Chifley somewhere in India (6)Most poignant lament is written in French (7)Puzzling mutation of giant mice (9)Tipsy couple's getting intimate (5, 2)Hound British regime in India about Gautama's original tree (9)Scottish philosopher doffs cap before flipping bird (3)Was pertinent Associated Press page misrepresented? (7)With a new leader, huffier and more pompous (7)Brilliant tirade about Western aid (7)Ailment moving one to get nourishment (7)Such shamelessness in Football Association -- gracious me! (6)North American tourism has no love for recreational nudity (8)Represent plutonium boomerangs as superior (5)Capital city in Czechoslovakia (4)Raise one in Oz, to the Olympic games (5)Saint Harry's late news flash (4,5)After reading this, you'll turn over a new leaf (5)Make continuous rounds of bars around Sydney's east end (6)SOLUTIONS: Across: 1/5 AUSSIE RULES (anag.) 9 SUB + MAR(IN)E (bus rev.) 10 ADIEU (ad you hom.) 11 REASSURE (anag.) 12 BEN + GAL 13 KEEN + EST 15 CLOSE UP (anag.) 16 EMU[h] (rev.) 17 AP + P + LIED 19 RA(DIA)NT (aid rev.) 21 IN + FA + MY 22 NA + T[o]URISM 25 HO(I)ST 26 ST + OP PRESS 27 RECTO (cryptic def.) 28 G(Y)RATE Down: 2 [d]UMB + RAGE 3 SPARS (2 defs.) 4 E + MIG + RATED 5 REEL (2 defs.) 6 [p]LEASEHOLD 7 S(H)INGLE &lit 8 PULL UP STUMPS (anag.) 9 STRIKE A LIGHT (anag.) 14 ENIGMATIC (anag.) 15 CUR + RAJ + ON + G 18 PUFFIER (p for h in huffier) 20 ALIMENT (ailment with I moved) 23 UP + PER (rev.) 24 OSLO (hidden)