Crossword for Sat, 9/Feb/2008

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Across
1: Pick a wrong angle (5)

4: Not well in vessel of large-calibre guns (9)

9: Love brown bananas well past prime (9)

10: A girl in distress, sought by knights (5)

11: Scandinavian wearing no buckles (9)

12: Casts off shacks (5)

13: Piano finale not determined (7)

16: Attack raise with no return (3,4)

19: Mortified humans - fifty per cent felt great pity (7)

21: Loathes key English exams (7)

23: Dizzy Ben is a playwright (5)

26: Bird dog devouring bad lad (4,5)

29: Vegetable has red cap (5)

30: Number observed with contest entry (9)

31: Ship's official drinking tea with buyer (9)

32: Lug worm finally being a symbol (5)
Down
1: Adult party to entertain disheartened women (5-2)

2: Theme eradicated partly by an eastern ruler (5)

3: There is no commoner old coin (5)

4: Fuss over band amounts to worshipping! (7)

5: They occupy the space of many workers (7)

6: Archipelagos concluded thus in Nigeria (5)

7: Belated top-and-tailing to gladden one's heart (5)

8: Moscow politician revolting in style (7)

14: Vet theatre opening 8-down (3)

15: I shall be sick! (3)

17: Worthless even when recycled (3)

18: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

19: Make known one pound increase after high school (7)

20: Adulterates by adding acid perhaps? (7)

21: Bring salvation to despised, rejected (7)

22: I left terminus, breaking a bone (7)

24: Pilot sometimes sounded more irritated (5)

25: Lacking energy, no Tech win (5)

27: German painter in a southern state (5)

28: and 15 Novel alternative excised from huge spits (5,12)




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