Crossword for Thu, 15/Feb/2007

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Across
1: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)

3: Trashy dime novel about American sex symbol who's not all there? (5,2,4)

8: Air transport for the lumberjack? (7)

9: Venomous enemy lurks in Caspians (3)

11: We blame knitter for small woolly jumper (3-4)

13: Bam! Rotated a degree (3)

14: Thumb Drum? (3)

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

17: Centre of diamond is shrouded in fog (5)

18: When first missing, feel sorry for wader (5)

20: Escalating naked conflict (3)

21: Sounds like a bright child (3).

22: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)

23: Famous for being incompetent? (7)

26: Rascal and wuss taking week off (3)

27: German state in which Brian almost entertains a girl (7)

29: Exciting moment, actor as reviewer (11)

30: Top card? Excellent! (3)
Down
1: Michael Caine, first outspoken host (5)

2: Clothed in flannel, openly run away together (5)

3: Sixpence for big cheese? (1.1.1.)

4: Neither partner finds way out of country (3)

5: Curiously mad sort of celebrity (7)

6: Show sedated one giving details (9)

7: Alludes to convicts holding up Italian (9)

10: Freedom of action in desert (7)

12: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

14: Name of place where cat ate a little horse? (7)

15: West abandoned mortals without a spot of confusion (9)

16: Animal or container in tree (9)

19: Drunkard turns to observe drunkard (7)

20: Gained a hearing (3)

24: Vagrant going over a little river to a foreign country (5)

25: Belated top-and-tailing to gladden one's heart (5)

27: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)

28: Vicar regularly outdated technology (1.1.1.)




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