Crossword for Wed, 2/Apr/2008

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Across
1: Polygraph unexpectedly traps vandal (3)

3: Black arts and demons concerned with Homer's issue? (4,7)

9: Song is a gas (3)

10: I left bear in pain it was the curdled milk! (7)

11: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)

12: Free sex, lips in beer; it's beyond words (13)

14: March follower off with pair left behind (5)

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

19: Forks over wire customized for special explosives (9)

21: Story about a little boy -- save for later discussion (5)

23: Changed musician not so offensively pious (13)

26: Clown with a tail. (3)

27: I fall over myself to get a bad reputation (3,4)

29: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)

30: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)

31: Pen extracts articles from satay (3)
Down
1: Capital investment producing hard faces (9)

2: New England river flowing with less constraint (7)

3: Gee, side dish doesn't include company's observation about gas? (6,3)

4: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

5: Drinker taking pint from wife, perhaps (5)

6: Small pieces of choral works missing tenor part (5)

7: Questionable chits rejected by Abbott (7)

8: Agreeable to taking in Eastern relative (5)

13: Pull 500 from newfallen snow (5)

16: In Germany, the monster returned from the east. (5)

17: One who wanders amidst fantastic text is one who is very outgoing (9)

18: Over 24 hours, Parisian street may feel remorse (3,3,3)

20: Heading from the Dakotas to the Little Big Horn, general is waylaid by a person who can look into the future, and backs out (7)

22: Ross bit nuts in restaurants (7)

23: Gutter seamstress (5)

24: Taste test (5)

25: Gibson working for shareholders' profit (5)

28: Gorilla taking head off at it's base! (3)




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