Crossword for Sat, 18/Jun/2011

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Across
2: Tidy up and clean floor finally and decisively (4,3,3,3)

9: A humorous writer or two (5)

10: Top colleges have three miles of vine (3,6)

11: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

12: Improve me back end (5)

13: Your leg? (5)

14: Rider in Confederacy's last two campaigns, primarily by inclination (7)

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

17: Vicar regularly outdated technology (1.1.1.)

18: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)

19: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

20: Crazy macabre American authors outside making perfumed hair applications (7)

21: Mark in Russian bar, empty the night before (5)

22: Approach hoist (3,2)

23: Mediterranean leaves unfashionable coins? (3)

25: Strangely, some limbs suffer from blood clots. (9)

27: Weirdos drop feet-first in pools (5)

28: ...near fishing boats stocked with cold bait (5,8)
Down
1: Swamp creature resting tail on a rocky outcrop (5)

2: Squaddies took in lecture (5)

3: Privy to accessibility (11)

4: Everything, including meat, in stew is nutritious (9)

5: Hardly a booze commercial nymph (5)

6: Nothing we have to pay (3)

7: Hurt a wagtail the day before cracking crossword (9)

8: General's horse galloping to dangerous coasts (3,6)

13: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

14: California bone head describes Bermuda Triangle region (9)

15: Old woman perhaps left blanket in satchel (9)

16: Getting by with saying It'll cut out tight bends (6,3)

22: We hear actor Paul is one on the way up (5)

23: Fancies and gets hard around (5)

24: Dixie, perhaps, greeting Japanese food (5)

26: Clothilda is carrying a parcel (3)




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