Crossword for Thu, 2/Aug/2012

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Across
1: Jumps all over bees swarming rat (7)

5: Box put on line for bird (7)

9: I tailored radical written opinion (9)

10: Composer employed in hotel garage (5)

11: D*** petrol pump sample? (7)

12: A group of notes! (7)

15: Made new, breaking away from tired ideas (5)

16: Louse can rise (3)

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

19: Child is to depart, finally (3)

20: Mink, for one, may fly when theres trouble (3)

22: Provoke popular scoundrel. (5)

24: Rhyme in Old English to run the show (7).

25: Mussel I cooked for breakfast fare (7)

26: Love our following morning (5)

29: How to finance 18-down? (5,4)

30: Old French act involving British eccentric (7)

31: Settler rearranged alphabet components (7)
Down
1: Kitchen appliance is banker's first loaner (7)

2: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)

3: E.g., told story about cave-men (11)

4: Struck with leading edge of shortstop's glove (7)

5: Beg like this - it's lawful (7)

6: Consumed and digested tea (3)

7: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

8: Explosive provided turning point of natural uprising (7)

13: Hostile warning: one man has captured the queen (11)

14: Sadly curtail urge for land cultivation (11)

18: Devastation when head is cut off before a party - it may be eaten as first course (7)

20: Free time around quiet stream (7)

21: Redesign it about Elle. (7)

23: Desires evil lives (7)

27: Inactive side (3)

28: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)




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