Crossword for Thu, 3/Feb/2011

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Across
1: Put a new value on what secret agent is hiding (5)

4: Saving from hell in the pop-shop? (9)

9: Questionable realtor robs preacher (4,7)

10: One may be a very long time (3)

11: Prohibit use of milliner's material for automobile part (3,4)

12: Twice take heart over raven writers so-called ground parrots (7)

15: Prig had ma conceal midriff (9)

18: Sailor takes gym class to slim down (5)

20: Notes spent in Germany (5)

21: Observed, yet seen so poorly (3,4,2)

22: 'Naked Gun' actor prepares to be dubbed in (in soundtrack) (7)

25: So disgusting no-one takes part? (7)

27: Crew member is one in operating room (3)

28: Mend a split state (11)

29: Sailors with thin skins are cinematic celebrities (4 5)

30: Goes bad and accepts never-ending abuses of the system (5)

Down
2: A humorous writer or two (5)

3: Watering devices found in run-down orange sheds (6, 5)

4: Last brute buckles under counter arguments (9)

5: Reportedly hoist Jeter of the NY Yankees (5)

6: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

7: Freeze one mug filled with tea, essentially (3,2)

8: First get a French weapon. (3)

9: Dumb moans cracked up investigator of complaints (9)

13: 15-acrosss toilet pot? Rubbish! (5,6)

14: Most distant area of open land has street on both sides (9)

16: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

17: 'True men' is false (9)

19: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

23: Enter names - register only lists beginners (5)

24: Some feudal assassin in Japan (5)

26: Globe's automobile award (5)

27: Inactive side (3)

28: Mediterranean leaves unfashionable coins? (3)





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