Crossword for Sat, 15/May/2010

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Across
1: Cirque du Soleil entertainer

4: Changes for the better

8: Poser

10: Parachute fabric

11: Tests for quality

13: Braying beast

14: Severely simple

15: Blue stripe

16: Where the buck stops?

17: Bar

19: Late-night host Leno

20: Make an effort

23: Cut off

24: Secret collaborator

26: Spacious window

27: Like Jeremiah

29: One who writes a fan letter

30: Answer
Down
1: A 'My Fair Lady' setting

2: Wailing spirit

3: Roof surface, perhaps

4: Expostulatory

5: Deer meat

6: Wild duck

7: Getting on in years

9: English subjects

12: Idol worshipper?

14: Nez Percé breed

18: John's Jordan River rite

19: Well-coordinated one

21: Villagers' lights, in 'Frankenstein'

22: Choral composition

25: Ran against competition

28: It's needed for a stroke




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