Crossword for Sat, 22/Dec/2007

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Across
2: Police questioning a retiring toon under the table (13)

8: Bored after meals? (3,2)

9: Flying squirrel making Prince Henry rage (9)

11: Mature writer beyond racy, impertinent introductions (5)

12: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

13: Departed after her heart put in high spirits (5)

14: Plots get Cuban revolutionary leader in a terrible mess (7)

16: Like cold chops without nuts (7)

17: Herb gets into place for icy dessert (7)

20: Coral Sea, perhaps, without a fish (7)

24: Caught carrying oregano's essence in inhalers (5)

25: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

27: One intolerant of extensive overtime (5)

28: Duck putting string on ancient peeper (9)

29: An Indian princess fled east repeatedly (5)

30: Teen unclothes poorly dressed diners (13)
Down
1: Stabs at centre-left defences (7)

2: Down under - thoroughly (2,5)

3: Name of place where cat ate a little horse? (7)

4: How to secure man-haters at last (5)

5: Comes to as Ken from Perth gets in (7)

6: Thankless person from Tangier (7)

7: The very young at times dash around seniors with energy (7)

10: Definitely the recital is arranged (7)

15: Liberate some tennis without charge (3,4)

17: The French inheritance given up by a former French colony (7)

18: Poles in trouble with character from Greece (7)

19: Ask for bit of bread with melted cheese (7)

21: Beatnik embraces nude in nightclub (7)

22: Feet of people who get talked about (7)

23: Retorts about those causing corruption. (7)

26: De Bergerac hugged bird on return (5)




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