Crossword for Sun, 17/Sep/2006

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Across
1: Guess what the benighted marksman did? (4,2,3,4)

4: This would make me a lord (7)

7: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

9: Later round without an opponent (3)

10: Demonstrated the way in which to keep poles apart (5)

12: Throw out faulty nib (3)

13: Lick up pal (3)

14: Not here? No, no! (5)

15: Literary device may be fey? (5)

17: The age of the equal rights amendment (3)

19: God, transforming first day into last night, was received (3)

20: Part, or bring together (5)

21: Contrarily accepted gold slab (5)

22: Compete with life in France (3)

23: Control escape (3)

25: Excessively sentimental dunderhead in the river (5)

27: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

28: Chatter about some pay-back (3)

29: The day ends with an unpleasant ancestral line (7)

31: He explored star (7,6)
Down
1: Casts off shacks (5)

2: Crew member is one in operating room (3)

3: Belgian port getting rid of an idiot (5)

5: A Hollywood star upset about paparazzi hub in crude social event (6,5)

6: Ordering a meal is causing uneasiness (7)

7: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)

8: Bright-sounding agenda touches on heavyweight legend (5,6)

9: Bird dog devouring bad lad (4,5)

11: Open present yonder (4,5)

14: Draw a stomach uprising (3)

16: Odysseus' first requirement - to catch you like Polyphemus? (3-4)

18: Is Pat suitable? (3)

22: Five Gaelic poems (5)

24: Unappealing environment for a snooze (3)

26: Year inside for undone expert (5)

30: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)




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