Crossword for Wed, 22/Aug/2012

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Across
2: Startled, grabs sailor (3)

4: Disillusioned with the tune not being broadcast (3,3,3)

9: Pathological bumbler holds a record (5)

10: Spider is natural at spinning (9)

11: Standard style of music rejected (3)

12: Tag his shirt in order to discover if he's only a little bent. (11)

13: Inept casino confused the issue (4,2,5)

16: Aliens set off (3)

17: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)

19: Crazy to clean sons in awful mess (11)

21: Conclude a recitation off-key (11)

24: Heavy metal group X (4)

26: Snub journalists with this surprisingly common medical specialty (2,7)

27: Fancy decoration thats cool on the surface? (5)

28: Ship's official drinking tea with buyer (9)

29: Anyway - no! (3)
Down
1: Hold onto string and file (5)

2: Garments for many knights, thanks to British poets (7)

3: Tempory respite about the goal. (9)

4: Tarka beheads scoundrel (5)

5: Mink up to ones peepers is said to make one pregnant (9)

6: Feeling Starsky's buddy has a change of heart (5)

7: I have followed a coach, shouting insults (7)

8: Hurting with pains? Not so! Far out! (7)

14: Ruined ship follows constraint of river (9)

15: Islander was eating bananas (9)

17: Norm cut vegetable (7)

18: Apprentice relinquishes heart to temptress (7)

20: Pieces of improperly lit tachometer returned with malice (7)

22: Ordered hoop to conserve mass and energy (5)

23: Head man loses head over flower (5)

25: Unholy father backed shrew (5)




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