Crossword for Sat, 14/Feb/2009

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Across
1: Gets high by direct routes? (9)

5: Annoying ad for toaster design? (3-2)

8: Number One in facetiousness (3)

9: Put hot cocoa out for someone glued to the TV (5,6)

11: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)

12: Sound of river crossing (3)

13: Returned, blushing about departure (9)

15: Principle unaffected by revolution (5)

17: Digs for leads in homicide of the elderly lady (5)

19: Reading or writhing in river (3,6)

23: One politician's a brat (3)

25: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

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

28: A representative may be a scamp (3)

29: Kicks watercraft (5)

30: Washed-up press agent, having dropped client's butt, is not the one in the driver's seat (9)
Down
1: Wander idly from home and err (7)

2: Lethargic entertainer taking part (5)

3: Fodder derived from Swiss lake (7)

4: Nerve cells that could make nose run (7)

5: Object for examination (7)

6: Jet to Mars for one, never reaching the end (5)

7: Object to professional examination (7)

10: Sounds like a lot of cattle for sub- Antarctic island (5)

14: God, transforming first day into last night, was received (3)

16: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)

17: Make known one pound increase after high school (7)

18: Desires taking time and interest for musicians (7)

19: One who regrets keeping large measuring stick (5)

20: Lean heavily on out of print publications (7)

21: Sally was ready to embrace East German (7)

22: Aliens work infrared thrust (7)

24: Tippecanoe is home to a nut (5)

26: Cake decoration methods essentially deleted from ancient Chinese book (5)




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