Crossword for Thu, 18/Jan/2007

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Across
1: 'True men' is false (9)

4: Belated top-and-tailing to gladden one's heart (5)

6: Language making a comeback in modern Italy (5)

9: In fear of wheat head (3)

10: Frost to cover the cake (3)

12: Club with space for some money (3)

13: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

15: Ball mislaid? Caned (5)

16: Long Rhine sequence in Wagner's work (9)

17: Notes spent in Germany (5)

19: Scrimmage as Confederate general introduces himself to Tarzan? (5)

21: Simpletons at home with no money (9)

24: Part of stair is erect (5)

26: Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)

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

28: I am reported to leer (3)

29: Clear initial rubbish in drain (3)

31: Adore inconstant nymph (5)

32: A revolutionary New England state or an Indian state (5)

33: Building for owl and treble changes? (4,5)
Down
1: A language one may read about (9)

2: No one told sister (3)

3: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

4: This would make me a lord (7)

5: Neil Armstrong, first to return from another world? (5)

7: A number going to church for fish (5)

8: Fruit taken in in inn (9)

11: The time before the first woman (3)

13: Have bananas now (3)

14: Study a French instrument - it's a puzzle (9)

18: English poet holding us responsible for hold-up? (9)

20: A murder suspect, one hears? (7)

22: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)

23: Tender translator of runes (5)

24: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

25: Casts off shacks (5)

30: Small piece of fish (3)

31: Choose to take the top off (3)




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