Crossword for Thu, 2/Feb/2017

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Across
2: Records that could be hits (7)

5: Five Gaelic poems (5)

8: Part of speech idealists rebuke (5)

9: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)

11: Youngster giving wounded first aid (5)

12: Those who study bugs' motion got less confused (13)

15: Pass mould (3)

16: However, you expect trouble at first (3)

20: Trap with hands? (3)

22: Bloody bored inside (3)

24: Rolling wave rolls into Rolling Stones song (3,3,4,3)

26: Birds in white trousers (5)

27: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

29: Old physician in sheltered church (5)

30: As in 'Lee goes back to the drawing board' (5)

31: Make money and set out to be serious (7)

Down
1: Charged a couple of hundred, getting exploited (7)

2: Piece of pottery containing drink to make beast tender (9)

3: Former name for joint audition (3)

4: Lick up pal (3)

6: Rare fish goes around and around (5)

7: Sex and dope are wrong, it's revealed (7)

10: Bird dog devouring bad lad (4,5)

11: Carried on with wit,energy and a little determination (5)

13: Attempt test (3)

14: Tom Sharpe source of imagery (9)

17: Scold head of state entertained by Ted Turner? That's most astute! (9)

18: Song about death for lover of Theseus (7)

19: No French islands for the other Dr. Crane (5)

21: Sister gets nothing, we hear (3)

23: Hun paid out for French prince (7)

25: Cults with oral sex (5)

28: In fear of wheat head (3)

29: Fiction position (3)





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