Crossword for Thu, 23/Oct/2008

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Across
1: Lick up pal (3)

3: Ran into a section of the time-table (3)

5: Points about dangerous wires can invigorate. (7)

9: Fashionable fragrance, fundamentally (2,7)

10: Takes hold of travel-bags (5)

11: Fish or insect for captain (7)

12: Agrees that a course should be forwarded to the primary school (7)

14: Compete with life in France (3)

15: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

18: Bend in Pennsylvania court case related to revered founder (11)

21: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

22: Daughter staring after gym teacher (7)

24: Left out cheese for parasites (7)

26: Be of use to a head covering, we hear (5)

28: Flooded out and united (9)

29: Bill is taken in by drug smuggler being inconstant (7)

30: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

31: Gained a hearing (3)
Down
1: Lion's leader publicizes dens (5)

2: Inauguration of Pennsylvania resident who occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Ave (9)

3: Actress Tori, lacking direction, is getting the characters out of order(11)

4: Get used to being in Treasury Department with a secure job (7)

5: 'Look at quickly,' I cry loudly (7)

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

7: Have misgivings (not half!) about making this gesture? (1-4)

8: Bouquets of flowers, freshly opened (5)

13: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)

14: Sixpence for big cheese? (1.1.1.)

16: Is it shrew cooking, or a lamb dish? (5,4)

17: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

19: Migrate to swing and Joplin tunes (7)

20: Crime's delays? (4-3)

22: Sitting in tree, sparrow's beginning song (5)

23: Preliminary form of conscription (5)

25: South of France, an African country (5)

27: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)




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