Crossword for Thu, 15/Oct/2009

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Across
1: Please start to sing at one San Francisco club (7)

5: Brother finally changed sides at the bordello. (7)

9: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)

10: Shot at lure? (7)

11: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)

12: Okay shot ripped tears in butt (6-5)

16: Have bananas now (3)

17: Support sign for subordinates (11)

19: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

20: Nightwear and jersey top added in afterthought (3)

21: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)

23: Leaders of Orioles and Rangers stick in the dugout? (3)

24: Watering devices found in run-down orange sheds (6, 5)

25: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)

26: Fish or insect for captain (7)

29: Fiction position (3)

30: Give back wares to retailer's layaway? (7)

31: Dexterity is an insult, so we hear (7)

Down
1: Hesper's fresh fields (7)

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

3: Come to terms with instant operating computers (5,2,2)

4: However, you expect trouble at first (3)

5: Behind and down and out (3)

6: First-class puzzle originally from Ontario is available (2,3)

7: Healers swear by the cases of the little river horse. (11)

8: Bale-out? No! In French Mediterranean nation? (7)

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

14: Broadcast by southern individual who likes felines? (7)

15: 'Inane' is not the same as 'inane' (7)

18: Crush rage created by the additional levy (9)

20: One appears at jetty to lead the way (7)

22: Vet injured spine before court (7)

24: Painting surface covered in stages sometimes (5)

27: Frost to cover the cake (3)

28: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

29: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)





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