Crossword for Wed, 26/Jul/2006

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Across
1: Totally lacking a lofty plaything (3)

3: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

7: It's on the coast of Australia - a tree discovered by science (6,3)

11: Envision dazed magi on the brink of enlightenment (5)

12: Standard style of music rejected (3)

14: Vet theatre opening 8-down (3)

15: Grant loud colour (3)

16: Heard about ark's leader taking census; just worthless (2-7)

20: Building for owl and treble changes? (4,5)

22: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

23: Gained a hearing (3)

25: Get into the archeology scene. (3)

26: The lowest point in a dire section (5)

27: Behold grand gold flightless bird, chattering endlessly (9)

30: Missed hoax set up to trap Sunday drunk outside saloon entrance (4,5,2)

31: Solo, the pilot rises? No way (3)

Down
1: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

2: However, you expect trouble at first (3)

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

5: Unskillful partner wearing gold ring, at first (7)

6: Girl mostly into turning inside out - it's never ending! (11)

8: Sister gets nothing, we hear (3)

9: Behind and down and out (3)

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

12: Criticise a computer analysis of famous passage (6,5)

13: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)

17: Perfume ingredient extracted from lamb ..... er, gristle (9)

18: Commanding officer is a roll call nut (7)

19: Softly, French author questions socially correct behavior (2,3,2)

21: Road without a pole (4)

23: Clown with a tail. (3)

24: Neither partner finds way out of country (3)

28: Polygraph unexpectedly traps vandal (3)

29: Residue has scattered (3)





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