Crossword for Sun, 9/Aug/2009

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Across
1: Essential part of Cayce's power! (3)

3: Girl hatches subterfuge in prison tower (11)

9: Cloth arrived by air after 50 hours (9)

10: Part of brutal one's claw (5)

11: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)

13: Difficult book about Baltic currency (11)

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

16: Yes, MBAs worked with a diplomatic staff (7)

17: Wild sire ran from Nevada mountain range (7)

20: Algerian city has grand musical instrument (5)

23: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

25: First get a French weapon. (3)

26: Weird eastern lake (5)

27: Who applies pitch to a snake-rope? (9)

29: Ever-practical, Mr. Vader keeps own little piggy (4-2-5)

30: Nothing we have to pay (3)

Down
1: Coral Sea, perhaps, without a fish (7)

2: Plan to return with woman (3)

3: Left a port near Dubrovnik (5)

4: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)

5: Telegraph about ancient city can be fixed (7)

6: One making a mess is resentful oaf, per Rev. Spooner (9)

7: All snog, exchanging quantities of fluid (7)

8: Leather factory or solarium? (7)

12: Later round without an opponent (3)

15: Me in a green tent's ultimate in harmony (9)

17: Dangle South American flags halfway (7)

18: Something one has to face: We're boy crazy! (7)

19: Hazel's protector, say, makes one mad (7)

20: Propane explodes, theoretically (2,5)

21: Complain about the horse (3)

22: Putting in a nugget, maybe, put a point to venerated one? (7)

24: Come to Korea - Chinese part (5)

28: And give a little toot! (3)





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