Crossword for Wed, 21/Jan/2009

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Across
1: Difficult book about Baltic currency (11)

7: Send back gangster's gun to get ID (3)

9: Working on mental topic? (13)

10: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

11: Small pieces of choral works missing tenor part (5)

12: Accommodate bear (3,2)

14: G-man covering beat lit up Bic? (7)

16: Bullfighters' crazy rooster (7)

18: Gets bastion rebuilt (7)

19: Upended Sparta's rulers (7)

21: We hear actor Paul is one on the way up (5)

23: Excessively sentimental dunderhead in the river (5)

25: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

26: A grim ball gown, uncomfortable in increasing temperature (6,7)

28: In the manner of a girl (3)

29: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)
Down
1: Kind of blue hereafter, at heart; this might tell what's to come? (3,4)

2: Believer in esoteric powers is joining quasi-religious group in October (9)

3: Throw out faulty nib (3)

4: Twilight: time for affair (5)

5: Slippery deck spots are on either side (9)

6: Quite put out, doctor axes red tape (11)

7: Dance with Oliver (5)

8: First get a French weapon. (3)

11: Trespass upon a moniker exploited by commercials (4,7)

13: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

15: We tangled with this old kitchen cloth (4,5)

17: Fresh ardor mellows outbursts on the highway (4,5)

18: Leaders of Orioles and Rangers stick in the dugout? (3)

20: Live within the lustre of a spirited place (7)

22: Demonstrated the way in which to keep poles apart (5)

24: Makes empty noises behind listener. (5)

26: Turn on an ex-Portuguese colony (3)

27: Frost to cover the cake (3)




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