Crossword for Fri, 19/Sep/2008

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Across
1: Lick up pal (3)

3: I fall over myself to get a bad reputation (3,4)

7: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)

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

10: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

11: Roll dirt and clay round tip of thumb with three fingers (9)

14: Flower part to lapse badly (5)

15: Feeling threatened, suggested concealing identity (11)

16: Have bananas now (3)

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

18: Wizards covered in liquor and beer...it might be for charity (7, 4)

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

22: Most cool first date out (9)

23: Nothing we have to pay (3)

24: I see marks on jumbled party favors (11)

28: Call for help oddly stops (3)

29: Denial referred to you and me and Al (7)

30: Freshen the atmosphere (3)

Down
1: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)

2: Standard style of music rejected (3)

3: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

4: Little one wearing hat provided boundaries (7)

5: Press against a container of Mexican beer and vodka (7)

6: One may be a very long time (3)

7: Exchange recipe describing a small amount of relish on rolled up taco (11)

8: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)

11: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

12: Intruders bury proles in pieces (11).

13: Spot stick-in-the-mud Republican with fan (7)

14: Most distressing point about dead saint (7)

19: Central section interrupting main tune (7)

20: Cinema made use internally of Oscar-winning film (7)

24: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

25: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

26: The age of the equal rights amendment (3)

27: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)





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