Crossword for Thu, 4/Feb/2010

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Across
1: German painter in a southern state (5)

3: Need tools to break up a valuable rock(9)

8: Mild oath irritates Degas (5)

10: Gee, boys--pitch a suitcase? (9)

11: Grave study: code-breaking? (13)

14: This behaviour causes sin! (9)

17: Call unexpectedly, find Dad at home! (3,2)

19: Radicchio tastes good in little bits. (5)

20: Subsequent supporter for Sideways (9)

21: Dry vegetarian, about to like this puzzle, perhaps? (6, 7)

25: Wild thing sure is greediest (9)

27: Put on University of Texas ring (5)

28: Shocked ensemble leader with ascending note during concert (9)

29: Do the young work for long? (5)
Down
1: Girl mostly into turning inside out - it's never ending! (11)

2: Under no circumstances should you take a worker from a bean-counter following his little number. (2, 7)

3: This food won't give you a heavy feeling (5,4)

4: Tied down holding back fighting (5)

5: Call for help oddly stops (3)

6: Smells renovated doors (5)

7: Sound of river crossing (3)

9: Looks like an eyesore, sounds like an eyesore (3)

12: Drive off returning outcast (5)

13: Bright-sounding agenda touches on heavyweight legend (5,6)

15: Publication for children (5)

16: Completely drenched, laid umbrella tip gauge down (9)

18: Optomist rashly to count votes before a form of a negative comes up (9)

22: Wander around stove (5)

23: Wives' strange ideas (5)

24: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

25: Grant loud colour (3)

26: Cleaning aid possessed by Fragonard (3)




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