Crossword for Fri, 16/Oct/2009

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Across
1: Live with stewed spinach ingredients (4,5)

6: Dizzy Ben is a playwright (5)

9: Hear Native American appeal (3)

10: Rohmer hiding unit of Resistance (3)

11: Bring salvation to despised, rejected (7)

12: Shepherd, at times, is more abrupt in tone (7)

13: Man sees bananas in a bunch (2,5)

16: A little sports car, let to harassed Southern belle (8,5)

18: Grave study: code-breaking? (13)

21: Would an Englishman worry about fish? (7)

23: Little bitty lines on a letter from Athens (7)

24: Drive an unusual visitor (7)

26: Anger that is constraining response (3)

27: Lick up pal (3)

29: Agreeable to taking in Eastern relative (5)

30: Part of lower body is slow to make laws (9)

Down
1: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

2: Always heading off without getting paid (9)

3: Orchestra I'm reorganizing for certain conductor (11)

4: Base of trap beyond 1999 (7)

5: Most distressing point about dead saint (7)

6: I shall be sick! (3)

7: Keeps, in vases, bananas (5)

8: She's providing us with a minder (9)

14: One Miss Horn takes a tumble with guys having outlaw spirits (11)

15: Nice work - point out the beginning (9)

17: One country or another entertains Jolson (9)

19: Frank turned brown sitting on mountains (7)

20: Glowering over textile activity (7)

22: Film #6 taken in by Stooge #1? (5)

25: Pass mould (3)

28: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)





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