Crossword for Sat, 1/Mar/2008

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Across
1: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

6: Requires five kills, or a single accurate shot. (3)

8: Fools the Proletariat after banning Marx's _Capital_ (5)

10: Moving haltingly, stopping short of the end (about a foot), by sundown (9)

11: Bargain holds principal leftovers for French room (5)

12: Chatter about some pay-back (3)

14: Birds in the wilderness (5)

15: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)

16: Company trapped by inflation is cause of great trouble (7)

17: Odds of niece being born (3)

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

20: Try to seduce (7)

22: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)

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

24: One may be a very long time (3)

25: Do the young work for long? (5)

26: Limbaugh, getting into cable, is liable to be overwhelmed (9)

28: Language of north India (5)

29: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)

30: 7-down relic? (6,5)
Down
1: Switch trains without interest and sit (9)

2: Bivalves? I thought you said biceps (7)

3: 28 Invitation for man to get a cent on November 5? (5,3,3,3)

4: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

5: Outrageous trio of Italians bursting in on divorcee and me (7)

6: Double profit repeatedly (5,3,5)

7: Hellish center for immigration? (5)

9: Pal teased about crazy snack food (6,7)

13: Left with pal carrying new gold case (11)

18: Dear spouse that was thoughtful (9)

20: Jewish leader in a bar tossed out pig meat (7)

21: Tinkers jump in children's world (3,4)

23: Go over and bring harness-racing horse back (5)

27: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)




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