Crossword for Wed, 22/Jan/2014

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Across
1: Multiple notes keeping youth leader youthful (4-5)

6: Grow, taking head of iceberg to show again (5)

10: Approach hoist (3,2)

11: Little bit quiet about Old Dick before the end (7)

12: Food provider for tom and two queens (7)

14: Defence work to smell a rat all over again (7)

15: Centre of diamond is shrouded in fog (5)

16: Casting my characters roughly as a kind of exercise (9)

19: Love sounded wrong for aunt and primate (5-4)

21: Pick a wrong angle (5)

23: Agrees that a course should be forwarded to the primary school (7)

26: Closer to morning, sound of storyteller follows organ (7)

27: Thankless person from Tangier (7)

28: Silent entertainer comes around and turns into talkative one (5)

30: Poles suffer internally - they're hard (5)

31: Butcher shop's opening to sounds of hilarity (9)
Down
2: Scolded, undergo assessment (7)

3: What this puzzle is (3)

4: Gory pitch worked as protection for maker (9)

5: Regretted backing up grasping tip of massive object (5)

6: Redesigned color name tag (5)

7: Story of a cold nobleman (7)

8: Check out tailless fish swallowing speck of dust with hand-held device (6,7)

9: Prosecutor entering motion following air conditioning company manager's initial settlement (13)

13: Put a new value on what secret agent is hiding (5)

17: Northern state nominates radical (9)

18: Argue about something boring (5)

20: A fool, for instance, may use a very good spear (7)

22: The final deep depression embraces the descriptive term (7)

24: Approaches first of nine pieces of corn (5)

25: Lots of westbound (southwesterly) trains (5)

29: Cleaning aid possessed by Fragonard (3)




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