Crossword for Tue, 20/Feb/2007

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Across
1: Residue has scattered (3)

3: Weapons in a womans speech (11)

7: Vet theatre opening 8-down (3)

8: Greenback entrances Microsoft boss (4,5)

11: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

12: Unappealing environment for a snooze (3)

13: A murder suspect, one hears? (7)

14: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

17: Check strong drink of 22-acrosss bold alter ego (5,6)

19: Dead time after amusement in December (7)

22: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

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

24: Account for musical river having flowed uphill (9)

26: I shall be sick! (3)

28: Beware of these they show the funny side of the month! (4,2,5)

29: In fear of wheat head (3)
Down
1: In the manner of a girl (3)

2: Poor man's right to make powerless (9)

4: Flower shop nosh about $41 (5)

5: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)

6: Part of stair is erect (5)

9: Start reducing salt? (3)

10: Syrian mother with a part in a play (9)

11: English poet holding us responsible for hold-up? (9)

12: Fool to join recital (3)

13: A heron regrets losing its wings (5)

15: Flare for clean-up time (5)

16: Fruit taken in in inn (9)

18: Rohmer hiding unit of Resistance (3)

20: Trade stolen items to guard (5)

21: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

22: 'There the woman is!' exclaimed in a less friendly way (5)

25: Direct object (3)

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




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