Crossword for Thu, 22/Feb/2007

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Across
1: European arrangement between the French and the German (9)

5: Five Gaelic poems (5)

8: It may be used in candy or brought back in taxi (5)

10: Lightweight cat (5)

11: Essential part of Cayce's power! (3)

12: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

15: Bird accompanying gangster or outlaw (5,4)

16: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

18: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

19: An exceptionally attractive person may be met aboard (9)

22: 15-acrosss toilet pot? Rubbish! (5,6)

24: Crew member is one in operating room (3)

26: Navigate by terse directions (5)

28: Dress up fakes without a shred of compunction (5)

29: Seat for the trafficker who doesn't take sides (5)

30: Quiet time to bellow fall, for example (3,6)
Down
1: Listened to someone without polish (7)

2: Discompose each half of turbines (7)

3: Funny dame getting red (5)

4: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)

6: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

7: Sex and dope are wrong, it's revealed (7)

9: It's on the coast of Australia - a tree discovered by science (6,3)

13: Finally check third of bomb shelters, after officer returns with scars (9)

14: Anger that is constraining response (3)

17: Mimic has to leave the ground (4,3)

18: Half disapprove of old king (3)

20: Gets bastion rebuilt (7)

21: An Asian making money carrying a letter from Greece (7)

23: Confuse cast (5)

25: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

27: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)




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