Crossword for Fri, 15/Dec/2006

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Across
2: A complex surprise (5)

4: Excite mirth in a daughter of Mnemosyne (5)

7: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

8: Central section interrupting main tune (7)

11: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)

12: Attempt test (3)

13: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)

14: Root for mounting might (3)

15: Smoked salmon for the auditor with hair (5)

17: Flora collected metal she owns (9)

19: Actors judged as eunuchs (9)

21: Drank up in station (5)

23: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

25: Animal hiding in abattoir (3)

26: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)

27: Implement box for young cat (3)

28: Place new requisition about the brotherhood (7)

29: Sound of river crossing (3)

30: Tuck's in a bad way, unable to move. (5)

31: Headless rodent left by bird (5)
Down
1: Talk about rent for a piece of property (7)

2: A friend comes round to appease (5)

3: Runner or dramatist in play (13)

4: One young lady who is out of order (5)

5: Before time like an aristocrat? (5)

6: Little woman at her lowest point (7)

9: To discover how far in they were, he thumped roughly without hesitation. (5)

10: Irregular bouts of activity suit beach scrubbers (4,3,6)

16: Mediterranean leaves unfashionable coins? (3)

18: Rascal and wuss taking week off (3)

19: Yellow fowl (7)

20: Saw palm down (5)

22: Piece of mosaic a Greek god put up (7)

24: Small pieces of choral works missing tenor part (5)

25: Tolerate small stream (5)

26: Write the letters of charm (5)




Solution (Reversed)
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