Crossword for Tue, 18/Nov/2008

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Across
1: 23% of Scandinavians backing leaders (3)

3: Toss a hammer into a nuclear accelerator! (4,7)

8: Won back base rate? Done! (7)

10: Reds die, but revolutionary lived (7)

11: Money hub of AWB race for grain (9)

13: Anchors in peat bogs (5)

15: Eat or drink after the dollar improves (5,2)

18: American boxer entering kind of club in Middle East region (7)

19: Rouses a snake w/rattles (7)

20: Remain distraught about initially rowdy sailor (7)

21: Rooted in regressive muddleheaded isolation (5)

22: Some wealthy women, I'm told, gossip about curves (9)

25: Mum gets customers some guns (7)

26: What's so crazy about belonging to a secret society? (7)

29: Inspects old radical for a moment (5, 6)

30: Find out scout (3)
Down
1: Vicar regularly outdated technology (1.1.1.)

2: Louse can rise (3)

3: Twisted like a Melbourne suburb (5)

4: Large strumpets turned a trick? (9)

5: Collector is slow mover garnering southern selenium (9)

6: With Starr finally out, Hyde's plan simply loses traction in a way (11)

7: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)

9: Odds of niece being born (3)

11: Robert's musical wild animals (7)

12: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

14: Fish found in the mountains (7)

16: Stateside bananas: most like a rock (9)

17: Reverend Spooner's congregants join together in fast (9)

23: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

24: Lightened up, taking part in strip-tease dance (5)

25: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)

27: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

28: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)




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