Crossword for Tue, 20/Apr/2010

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Across
1: Is Pat suitable? (3)

3: Conclude a recitation off-key (11)

9: Arranger of mere songs put in the shade (4,5)

10: Tilts and rolls (5)

11: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)

12: I clear imp in ruckus based on evidence (9)

13: Loathes key English exams (7)

15: Make mistake with a check, largely irregular (7)

17: Song about death for lover of Theseus (7)

19: Counted time on one's side (7)

21: California business providing front for fraudulent racket (9)

23: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)

25: The end of a fire (or a month?) (5)

27: Segregate horses around the object of a hunt (6,3)

28: I deem turds a regrettable necessity (11)

29: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)
Down
1: Allow meathead into mine opening (5)

2: Drunk stops to heave (7)

3: Returned, blushing about departure (9)

4: Belgian port getting rid of an idiot (5)

5: Corner I established confines the most unruly (9)

6: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

7: Press against a container of Mexican beer and vodka (7)

8: Lineman circled South Carolina once, and settled down (9)

13: Outline a principal overhaul (4,5)

14: Breaking promise, strip back nightie (9)

16: Four runners usually talk about YMCA in the morning (5,4)

18: In Cuba, eliminating a U.S. nightmare (7)

20: This sort of salad vegetable is found mostly below the surface. (7)

22: Start reorganizing notes (5)

24: Caesars standard golf score? (5)

26: Road without a pole (4)




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