Crossword for Thu, 19/Feb/2009

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Across
1: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)

3: Lead around other green (7)

7: One may be transported by this kiss, it's said (3)

9: Faith in Osiris, lamentably (5)

10: Explorer taking stuff back and beginning to observe game (5,4)

11: Next to erector is a witness (9)

14: Warning sound in audio of Jodie Foster movie (5)

15: Invention to trick four into a stupor (11)

17: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)

18: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

20: Mend a split state (11)

22: Lease bad tripod (5)

23: Batman novel is pure horse ... ! (9)

26: In love with copper? Gone to give the needle? (9)

28: Bolt I have inserted in right frame (5)

29: Half disapprove of old king (3)

30: Thirteenth in a series, ER's about an Aussie racketeer who took repeated slams? (7)

31: Child, bask by the sound (3)
Down
1: Shinny up and start to cut branch (5)

2: Moscow politician revolting in style (7)

3: Plan to return with woman (3)

4: After Burton, the wild part of a person turns meek (5)

5: About....about right? Wrong! (3)

6: Bar mail of unadorned capital (5,6)

7: One of a pair will turn around nothing, all right (7)

8: Marijuana caught in slight stage illumination (9)

12: Sadly curtail urge for land cultivation (11)

13: Wander around stove (5)

15: In C, tritones blown by Satchmo, e.g. (9)

16: Goddess is against holding back one Quebecoise (5)

19: Narrowly beat or oust one, oddly (4,3)

21: Separates 100 sheets of paper (7)

24: Sleep around in sheds (5)

25: Decimal, in many cases (5)

27: Copy of top ten missing (3)

28: Control escape (3)




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