Crossword for Sat, 21/May/2011

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Across
1: Cast ballots, with five to back Edward (5)

4: Tot gets $1,000 for the piano! (4,5)

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

10: Cull out from top ten (3)

11: Rule for finding direction between-times? (5)

12: Stoop to enter wretched kennel with stock measure (5,4)

13: Great flow dissipated into phosphorescent aura (9)

16: Shy away from women's clothing (5)

17: Maxim is a little man (5)

19: Recycled output for larger hollow tree within (4,5)

21: Set out again for back stove (9)

23: First Fleet diarist-cum-swimmer (5)

26: Half disapprove of old king (3)

27: I'll be stuffed if I'll deal with him!. (11)

28: Duck out of mergers arranged to cramp one (9)

29: Imagine 500 papers in a bundle (5)

Down
2: Gripped by instrument, a longish claw (5)

3: A vagrant fishing-boat (7)

4: Tongue-in-cheek advice to enter cast (5,1,3)

5: Mark in Russian bar, empty the night before (5)

6: Defender is the one admitting to moving goalpost (9)

7: In hindsight, schedule recorded for a blast (9)

8: Animal hiding in abattoir (3)

9: Stories least translated (5)

13: Decision tree's unusual goal: mirth? (9)

14: Couple gain control of schooner, for example (3-6)

15: Little friend of Barbie's returning red piece of luggage (9)

18: Big Bird and Ernie auditioning after Sesame Street ends (5)

20: Irrigated tree tangled in wad (7)

22: Accidentally unsex group with ties (5)

24: Spring water coming up natural, simple, and fresh (5)

25: Pate topping primarily honey and tamari? (3)





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