Crossword for Sat, 8/Mar/2014

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Across
1: One of museums awash with cultural treasures (9)

6: Some wear medals when carrying weapons (5)

9: Speak slowly, with upward lilt at the beginning (5)

10: True-blue pub changes at heart (5)

11: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

12: Sharpen search, including gym and cubbyholes (9)

13: Take Chair in university (3)

15: Discounting losing one's sense of humour? (8,3)

18: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

19: Odds of niece being born (3)

20: 28 Invitation for man to get a cent on November 5? (5,3,3,3)

21: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

23: Carp over sign on a doorway with craftsman (9)

25: Sounds like a wolf on the coast (3)

26: Youre filming some Return of the Long Term Prisoner (5)

27: Interstate trade is best (5)

28: Scrimmage as Confederate general introduces himself to Tarzan? (5)

29: Crooner Mel: famous, loveless, suffering (9)
Down
1: With Starr finally out, Hyde's plan simply loses traction in a way (11)

2: Wake up Hoad, beaten in motorists facility (9)

3: Caribbean tourists love to do this as dolphin cavorts (6-3)

4: A friend comes round to appease (5)

5: Gloomy yet distorted derivation (9)

6: Unscripted part for head librarian (2,3)

7: Notes spent in Germany (5)

8: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)

14: Mixed greens and teals, so dad's remodeled (6,5)

16: Having a specialized tax status, the result of a visit to an amateur tailor? (9)

17: Extremely cold effect of shot of bitters (9)

18: Burial of radical author steeped in meaning (9)

22: Stir outspoken 3-down resident, usually (5)

23: The cow may do this in the local veterinary yard (5)

24: Slip in terror (5)

25: Behind and down and out (3)




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