Crossword for Sun, 12/Dec/2010

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Across
1: Inactive side (3)

3: Risk of pole womans end being upset after handy beer (11)

9: Encrusted with crustaceans, with salt stripped out? (9)

10: Theologist embraced love's point when medicated. (5)

11: Dilapidated sofa contained initially some hot embers: something's burnt remains. (5, 2)

13: Discompose each half of turbines (7)

15: Streetcar crashed into litterbug, perhaps? (9)

17: To discover how far in they were, he thumped roughly without hesitation. (5)

18: Inert form of saltpeter (5)

20: Rare occasions of father embracing woman with sign (9)

22: Left behind? Shiver violently and wither (7)

23: Most moving parts of rivers add estuaries (7)

24: No hay for big punch fabricator (5)

25: Fruit taken in in inn (9)

28: A Hollywood star upset about paparazzi hub in crude social event (6,5)

29: Consumed and digested tea (3)
Down
1: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

2: In favor of echoing game call (3)

3: Ed hates broken earphones (7)

4: French singer eats bit of leftover rice dish (5)

5: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)

6: Bore stopped outside ancient city (7)

7: 7-down relic? (6,5)

8: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

11: Agrees that a course should be forwarded to the primary school (7)

12: Overcome by disappointment from the rare bonk going awry (11)

13: Quietly instigate a witch-hunt (5)

14: From memory, next to courage (2,5)

16: Drive back pariah from the East (5)

19: Patriot embraces one dream (7)

21: A methodical soldier? (7)

23: Batsman leaves cry-baby on the wagon (5)

24: Backblock not all there (3)

25: Venomous enemy lurks in Caspians (3)

26: Heir apparent conceals nest egg (3)

27: The time before the first woman (3)




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