Crossword for Tue, 12/Oct/2010

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Across
1: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

3: Pal obtains rations (7)

7: Top card? Excellent! (3)

9: Sci-fi pioneer composes Mercury Sources (1.1.,5)

10: Custom in Communist radical uprising (2, 5)

11: Person pressing a lawsuit torched one reptile? (9)

12: Dance starts to worry winner (5)

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

17: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

18: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

19: Mere chance of depression interrupting peace (11)

22: Boxer Max returned, holding heroin, for treatment (5)

24: Big wheel examines prejudices (9)

25: Story of a cold nobleman (7)

27: Devastation when head is cut off before a party - it may be eaten as first course (7)

29: Aliens set off (3)

30: Bees encircling trash--back, over, and above (7)

31: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)
Down
1: Solo, the pilot rises? No way (3)

2: Thats sensible; has the eagle perhaps landed? (4-2-5)

3: Al's gamble on outcome of sports (4,5)

4: Computer screen is OK with time sped up (7)

5: Hold spellbound in the tenth rally (7)

6: Fat?! According to talk, you is a pig! (5)

7: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

8: In fear of wheat head (3)

11: Smaller golfer (7)

13: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

14: Siamese toolmakers reportedly in colorful clothing (3-4)

16: Otis and Vince mad for being thrown out repeatedly (9)

20: Deductions concerning murderer in Hitchcock film (7)

21: Dragging endless returns from a tightwad (7)

23: Part of book covers ballpark legends, using reliable background sources (5)

25: Consumed and digested tea (3)

26: Mediterranean leaves unfashionable coins? (3)

28: Nothing we have to pay (3)




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