Crossword for Sat, 12/May/2007

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Across
1: Rifles protect lady from 16-down overhead (11)

7: Compete with life in France (3)

9: I'm running into ill-humored statements (9)

10: Remove top substituting pints for cups (5)

11: End inner-value conversion in UK taxes (6,7)

15: Train sets notwithstanding (9)

19: Love affair for one like Othello, we hear (5)

20: Virago would dwell on male chromosome (5)

21: Open present yonder (4,5)

22: Holder of strange ritual of troll (5,8)

26: Burn bear (5)

28: Marijuana caught in slight stage illumination (9)

29: Ran into a section of the time-table (3)

30: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)
Down
1: Bend in Pennsylvania court case related to revered founder (11)

2: Lease bad tripod (5)

3: . . . or working with one group of stars (5)

4: French love listening to a person like Othello (5)

5: Attempt test (3)

6: Ambush late-rising with auditors load (3,2,4)

7: Sixpence for big cheese? (1.1.1.)

8: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

12: Reportedly examine certain sports car (5)

13: Run off to marry in Tupelo, perhaps (5)

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

16: Short line in letter back-fires (5)

17: Firework for Kennedy ends right in a hollow part (9)

18: Love our following morning (5)

23: Clean air makes Australia singular (5)

24: Scrabble piece having D and a diacritical mark (5)

25: Slender flame's emanation (5)

26: Behind and down and out (3)

27: Cot is unmade for short month in fall (3)

28: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)




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