Crossword for Wed, 17/Jun/2009

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Across
1: Hope destiny is remarkable - to free the mind (11)

6: Tender command (3)

8: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

9: Missed hoax set up to trap Sunday drunk outside saloon entrance (4,5,2)

11: Crosses through vocal factions (7)

12: Stare at severe blemish (7)

14: Pathological bumbler holds a record (5)

16: We hear former wife thrilled Richard, an odd person (9)

20: Rejecting help, soldiers taking numbers for identification (9)

21: Irish playwright livin soundly (5)

22: Live within the lustre of a spirited place (7)

25: No, I save up for escape (7)

27: Black arts and demons concerned with Homer's issue? (4,7)

29: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

30: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)

31: I deem turds a regrettable necessity (11)
Down
1: Convertible has odd bar in instrument panel (9)

2: Dislikes laughter set-up (5)

3: Compile an anagram: cop in male form (9)

4: Paper boy? (5)

5: Predatory bird decapitated dog (5)

6: Animal hiding in abattoir (3)

7: Slangily, hip old English author (5)

10: Siblings who have orderly habits? (7)

13: One of the Marx brothers making a comeback as talk show host (5)

15: Introduction to book by mere poet (5)

17: Like cold chops without nuts (7)

18: San Francisco athlete captures wild boar, an obvious choice (2-7)

19: Study a French instrument - it's a puzzle (9)

22: Batsman leaves cry-baby on the wagon (5)

23: Face-off stopped and relieved the pressure (5)

24: Identifies men as displaced - best not to be one at 34's (5)

26: Gulf expressed in certain letters (5)

28: Bloody bored inside (3)




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