Crossword for Fri, 16/Mar/2012

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Across
1: Profile of study-trip (7)

5: Fixes price and French proof of sale (7)

9: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)

10: 15-across Something good that blinds copper (5,7)

11: Egad, a saw, run in reverse (5)

12: Uncompromising joke about Ms. Hayworth (7)

13: Loathing for leader leaving platform (5)

14: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

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

18: With Starr finally out, Hyde's plan simply loses traction in a way (11)

21: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

22: Transgression if turning end in Marseille (5)

23: Hold torn veil held by busy worker (7)

25: Oilwell fireman Red's commercial run (5)

26: Damage surrounding most of old tooth (5)

27: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

29: Offensive time: that woman's in restraints (7)

30: Climactic age opal tossed (7)
Down
1: See, you are a cad. (3)

2: The lowest point in a dire section (5)

3: Gold tooth, perhaps, in satellite? (7)

4: Jewish leader second in the shower (5)

5: Uncommon fly on rare plant (5,4)

6: Prisoners drawing in some light colours (7)

7: Frozen awkwardly, i.e. a tin man (9)

8: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

12: Organized fatso follows start of precise measurement including pound of seasoning (11)

15: Superfluous request for payment received by Communist soldier (9)

17: Al's gamble on outcome of sports (4,5)

19: Watch Obadiah attend to customers (7)

20: An Italian port - New Orleans (7)

23: Fir tree cut down for kind of wood (5)

24: Unsettling sound from eagle's nest (5)

28: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)




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