Crossword for Thu, 2/Oct/2008

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Across
1: Provoke Church of Scotland's absent leader (3)

3: Mixed greens and teals, so dad's remodeled (6,5)

8: Back in November, tilers had some measure of quantity (5)

9: Oilwell fireman Red's commercial run (5)

11: Feel sick from crack? (3)

12: Explosion is bomb's first and last (5)

14: Curse the mother country? (9)

16: Stranger's radical party rejected (5)

17: Rev. Spooner says 'The person massaging Reagan is illiterate' (3-6)

18: Suspicious nag, roused, is apt to make trouble (9)

20: Drank up in station (5)

21: Little friend of Barbie's returning red piece of luggage (9)

22: Remains as the woman goes inside (5)

23: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)

25: Big Bird and Ernie auditioning after Sesame Street ends (5)

26: Conservative supporting pain in War on Terror (5)

29: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

30: Totally lacking a lofty plaything (3)

Down
1: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

2: Implement box for young cat (3)

3: The rate changed at movie house (7)

4: On your feet! (8,5)

5: Come up for air with expert under ocean waves (7)

6: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

7: The star of 'Ellen' has at folks with substandard morals (11)

10: Ministers ordain art evil? I doctor a reversal (13)

12: Weapons in a womans speech (11)

13: Musical direction by an Italian poet (7)

15: Down under - thoroughly (2,5)

19: Blind doctor sees Ely (7)

20: Poker-faced piper who has passed away (7)

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

27: Capture ten heading north (3)

28: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)





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