Crossword for Sun, 15/Jul/2012

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Across
2: Modernise rear, in the opinion of escort (5,2,2,4)

9: sliced again with cuter swing (5)

10: English novelist is in future a delight (5)

11: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)

12: Regular errors in musical application (5)

13: Lined salt shaker made ready for use (9)

14: How to eat the heart of marsupial (3)

15: First in Irish language to efface (5)

17: Dorm elder, dreading it immensely at first, spoke repeatedly (5)

19: Challenged Ruby after district attorney (5)

22: Release pressure after energy incident (5)

24: Tender command (3)

25: One who administers drug treatments puts me in band at Hat Head (9)

27: Dizzy Ben is a playwright (5)

28: I've lost struggle (3)

29: He is found in the alloy described (5)

30: Adds money owed to the government in hearing (5)

31: ...near fishing boats stocked with cold bait (5,8)
Down
1: Form of address valued for the auditor taken unawares (9)

2: Eat or drink after the dollar improves (5,2)

3: Extreme aims voiced (7)

4: Ermine, missing tail, squeezing into opening in fence to engage in the process of creating new life (9)

5: For Summits, speak out of order (5)

6: Uncovered some letters written back in Sumerian epoch (4-3)

7: Took advantage of Delia, heading up to northern Virginia (7)

8: Newsman Bradley accepts men, correct? (5)

16: Two detectives produce a cosmetic (3,6)

18: A country, one said, in trouble (9)

20: Hungarian composer on CD extra, perhaps, with Norwegian composer (7)

21: D*** petrol pump sample? (7)

23: This'll sound like a Scottish emblem (7)

24: Crosses through vocal factions (7)

25: Paradise without second shelter? (5)

26: Love affair for one like Othello, we hear (5)




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