Crossword for Sun, 23/Feb/2014

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Across
1: Close-fitting

5: Minor, in law

8: Truck alternative

9: Banquet emcee

10: At a distance

12: One-liner expert

15: Winter hazard

17: Newsy stuff

18: Pipe type

19: Customs officer's concern

21: Street urchin

23: Fathom

24: Waiter's deduction (Part 2)

27: Not very many

28: Bat's detection tool

29: Beatles classic

Down
1: Rescuers

2: Charged particle

3: Bad places for stone throwers

4: Tricycle rider

5: Appeasing

6: Preschool attendee

7: Bullfighters

9: Ride to the body shop, perhaps

11: Potter, at times?

13: Groups of people

14: Hanging on to

16: San Francisco transport

18: Kahunas

20: Brief vacation

22: Prior to, in verse

25: Prince, to a king

26: Batman foe Poison ___

27: Nourished





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