Crossword for Wed, 13/Aug/2008

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Across
1: Void three stones (5)

4: Bart's also cast as Big Bird (9)

9: City that cowboys used to avoid (5)

10: Send back gangster's gun to get ID (3)

11: Subsequently change, when Al turns around? (5)

12: Perhaps men sit and eat in a cafe (9)

14: Follow south for lecture (5)

16: Article missing from European's sources (5)

18: Ace practised a lot by female golfer in a state of decline (2,1,3,3)

20: Eccentric bad footballer (3-6)

21: First in Irish language to efface (5)

22: Bring someone to Court Street meeting (5)

23: CEO Kane we agitated every Friday, as one example (4,1,4)

25: Cheer supporting blue automaton (5)

27: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)

28: Where transport is provided by chopper (5)

30: Cover-ups of some Mexican heads reflected in more angry disorderly mobs (9)

31: One with no trust in decency, niceness, etc. (5)

Down
2: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)

3: Lodge heard discharge (5)

4: Companion to take care of worker (9)

5: One intolerant of extensive overtime (5)

6: Select Poe novel and condense (9)

7: Cull out from top ten (3)

8: Rap wave using scab? (6-7)

9: Changes direction with care, as befits a benefactor. (4, 4, 5)

13: Careful to take break in your old environment (7)

15: Mean years following vow (7)

17: One who watches set captor free (9)

19: Some leading trios are essentially reenacting poems (4,5)

23: Route around exterior (5)

24: Spread hocus-pocus partly for this particular purpose (2,3)

26: Behind and down and out (3)

29: Gained a hearing (3)





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