Crossword for Sun, 13/Jul/2008

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Across
1: Birds in white trousers (5)

4: Measure ordering carving in relief (9)

8: Pinker and harder to find (5)

9: Tears material, tears material (9)

11: Extend a term of imprisonment (7)

13: A fool had peas cooked (7)

15: Discharge space-talk (5)

18: Standard style of music rejected (3)

19: Guided into the West (2,3)

20: Trainee repudiates closing plant? (5)

21: Draw the knot (3)

22: and 15 Novel alternative excised from huge spits (5,12)

23: Carry on after New York's flipped into unconsciousness (7)

24: One's laid over top of house (7)

27: Cops and I abandon frayed trampoline (9)

29: Flower festival is pointless (5)

30: Fade over a tape, when edited (9)

31: Daytime 8-down repelled Marx (5)
Down
1: Ceases running features about Republican in serious trouble (4,7)

2: One who heals despicable person on TV hospital program (5)

3: Mis-trust this support (5)

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

5: Steer TS into alternative routes (4,7)

6: With great strength holy man stays above reproach (9)

7: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)

10: Settler-constructed bridge (7)

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

14: Ever-practical, Mr. Vader keeps own little piggy (4-2-5)

16: Former color no longer in production? (7)

17: Explorer taking stuff back and beginning to observe game (5,4)

25: Choose every other birdbath for Picabo Street's home (5)

26: Swamp creature resting tail on a rocky outcrop (5)

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

28: Former name for joint audition (3)




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