Crossword for Wed, 18/Apr/2012

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Across
1: Beethoven's first love - sculptor or composer (7)

5: Hears rallies (5,2)

9: Try to deny yod is a vowel intrinsically (7)

10: Pattern upset clients (7)

11: Anger doctor internalizes is more serious (5)

12: Witty remark, for example, about constant batterer (7)

14: Rose was refined, but would never make a silk purse (4,3)

16: One might be uplifted if a cockney spoke of arts such as opera. (7)

17: Stone or card (7)

20: Little singer returned, following band to total a hairy little mother with seating for one. (7)

22: Take out former pamphlet? (7)

23: Gnomelike feature of parallel fingers (5)

25: Drunkard turns to observe drunkard (7)

27: Bomb compartment - note damaged weapon (7)

29: Blame cast about nine adept at blending in (7)

30: Joker idled lazily among ring leaders (7)
Down
1: Tender command (3)

2: One who gets up part of stairway (5)

3: Separate Tolkien's monster in the middle of dive (7)

4: Yew chopped up inside close to January (3,4)

5: I'm covered with glue - it's a hobby (7)

6: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

7: Scores may appear amongst the trees (9)

8: Boob implant cups: sad hoax in line with 15-down (8,3)

11: I deem turds a regrettable necessity (11)

13: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

15: Feeble queens former partner is of feminine gender (6,3)

18: Cull out from top ten (3)

19: He was called to defend complicated Fed rate (7)

20: Mistakenly reboot C: in spooky month (7)

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

24: Test fabrics in nightgowns and ladies' tops (5)

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

28: Startled, grabs sailor (3)




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