Crossword for Wed, 22/Feb/2012

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Across
1: Bored after meals? (3,2)

4: Harvesters of needlefish eating there (9)

9: Clothilda is carrying a parcel (3)

10: May voyage a spell (7)

11: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

12: In fear of wheat head (3)

13: Incomplete raw data lies in largely unexplored regions (4,7)

16: Ruck dangerously, stop when many are involved. (5)

18: Goner osculates wildly (4,5)

19: You say the apartment you let someone use is having a problem with gas? (9)

22: There's uranium in many a flower (5)

23: Rifles protect lady from 16-down overhead (11)

25: Rohmer hiding unit of Resistance (3)

27: Get into the archeology scene. (3)

29: Hair, essentially brown, swirling about in colorful display (7)

31: One may be transported by this kiss, it's said (3)

32: Took a load off awfully thin ledge (9)

33: Give in and offer up (5)

Down
1: Treacherous stray fleas (5)

2: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)

3: Reflective review of lead horse (5)

4: Trap with hands? (3)

5: Arguments about a couple of arcane taxes (7)

6: I clear imp in ruckus based on evidence (9)

7: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)

8: Tess spied wrinkled skirts (9)

14: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

15: Check strong drink of 22-acrosss bold alter ego (5,6)

16: Play down awkward date's flop (4-5)

17: Underworld biggie (and chief stoolie) is a rich and powerful person (9)

20: No, I save up for escape (7)

21: Child is to depart, finally (3)

24: Mere owl inhabits large yard (5)

26: Monday spent in thought (5)

28: Feel sick from crack? (3)

30: Tender command (3)





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