Crossword for Wed, 12/Dec/2012

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Across
1: Call girl sting nabs head of Moral Majority (5)

4: Mixed bag to drain into tip or refuse (9)

9: Man sees bananas in a bunch (2,5)

10: Peewee keeping in love encounter (3,4)

11: About....about right? Wrong! (3)

12: Unsettling sound from eagle's nest (5)

14: Sculpted torso brings cheers (5)

16: Travel - pioneering art form (13)

19: Rise as in throw, perhaps, showing fitness to fly (13)

21: Quiet floor decoration is a sign of indifference (5)

23: Guard enthralled by desperately urgent sad song (5)

24: Plan to return with woman (3)

25: Dropping in once again to analyze Aretha's hit (7)

27: Ali, among others, is a practical person (7)

28: Deep dirge played for one of unimpeachable heritage (9)

29: Sing gist of laudatory ode loudly (5)

Down
1: Working up here? Not in the next episode (9)

2: Spot stick-in-the-mud Republican with fan (7)

3: A driven person, Ness left wearing a beeper (9)

4: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)

5: Barque, for one, is a trio-tutor (5-6)

6: How Nero holds one in control (5)

7: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)

8: The Irish are working for small clubs (5)

13: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)

15: Have bananas now (3)

17: Head of Immigration leads rare uprising in tiny travel plan (9)

18: E.g., lead Boston finally out of cellar, American League (4,5)

19: Song is a gas (3)

20: Drained journo covers polly deadlock (7)

21: Take off from small runway (5)

22: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

26: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

27: Clear initial rubbish in drain (3)





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