Crossword for Sat, 20/Dec/2008

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Across
1: Irish playwright livin soundly (5)

4: Secures a term and travels (4,5)

9: Woods and the entire group making cut-off in advance (9)

10: Guarantee limit (5)

11: Ordered hoop to conserve mass and energy (5)

12: Wild thing sure is greediest (9)

14: It's initially recording automobiles speed, leading to charge (5,4)

18: To confuse, immerse a priest in drink. (5)

19: Loathing for leader leaving platform (5)

20: Disreputable person lured cons astray (9)

21: Ill, quite sour, and kind of blue (9)

23: Polyamide used by many Londoners (5)

25: Technique for picking up new material? (5)

27: Masters' final foursome tees off -- 'Singh-ular' start (6,3)

29: A doped-up user cans pledge (9)

30: Give in and offer up (5)
Down
2: Rabbit (male) with nest of bunnies? (5)

3: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)

4: Grown-up kids' tender hearts god broke? (9)

5: Jeep model went along to show (5)

6: Determine Cartesian coordinates? (9)

7: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)

8: How a diver might marry (4,3,6)

9: Holder of strange ritual of troll (5,8)

13: Bush, senior (5)

15: Physician that is right is less interesting (5)

16: Who smuggled the odd athlete? (3,6)

17: In favour of change reduce mode of action (9)

22: Dizzy Ben is a playwright (5)

24: Free trade: highest bird for lowest bill(5)

26: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

28: Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)




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