Crossword for Tue, 8/Jul/2008

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Across
1: Mild expletive for a sea-faring people? (9)

6: Notes spent in Germany (5)

9: Clearances for the first couple of characters to find answers. (11)

10: Feel sick from crack? (3)

11: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)

12: Eights had to race again, we hear, concerning fish spawn. (2, 3)

13: Witticism provided theme (5)

15: Warning! The French return to take up weapons.(5)

16: What's left when you burn the tree (3)

18: Look into bazooka-firing Afghanistan people (5)

20: Englishman opening a can to dine at home (3,2)

21: About....about right? Wrong! (3)

22: Mousy girlfriend loses head and bellybutton (5)

23: Stories least translated (5)

25: Grow, taking head of iceberg to show again (5)

26: Direct object (3)

27: Bloody bored inside (3)

28: Arranged date in Cairo means extermination (11)

29: Part of stair is erect (5)

30: Aroused with short tutu, mesmeric midsection, and perfume (9)
Down
1: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

2: Train sets notwithstanding (9)

3: Enticements disrupt mental rules (11)

4: Boundary requires a frenetic reorganization (9)

5: Plate through the nose for lasso (5)

6: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)

7: True side (5)

8: Bend in the middle and wind back (3)

13: Trespass upon a moniker exploited by commercials (4,7)

14: Fashion term heartless: Feeling up Blossom (6-2-3)

17: Flora collected metal she owns (9)

19: Dream of the volume of a soft drink? (9)

24: Many sound prospects for prospectors (5)

25: Severely criticize cook (5)

27: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)

28: In fear of wheat head (3)




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