Crossword for Fri, 23/Nov/2012

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

4: Representatives from west coast ball club recruiting a woman manager - the first (9)

8: Choice bergamot subdues growler (7)

9: Lately, liking to spell? (7)

11: Insured copter Ted crashed (9)

13: Slacker is riled, unfortunately (5)

14: Hostile warning: one man has captured the queen (11)

15: Found in a pod or with nuts (3)

17: How to eat the heart of marsupial (3)

18: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

21: Bouquet's sent up to network director? (5)

23: Stormy Toccata in A might be best music for one in this state. (9)

25: Odysseus' first requirement - to catch you like Polyphemus? (3-4)

26: Whip in swell company (7)

28: Come back after date full of zest for political system (9)

29: Hardly a booze commercial nymph (5)
Down
1: Cut corners and omit taking minutes (5)

2: Anger that is constraining response (3)

3: Nick shouts - and theres trouble brewing! (3,5,2,3)

4: Beneficiary of ticket sales, in general (7)

5: Cajole important person having below-average grade at end of June (7)

6: Correspondence with meal I cooked (5)

7: Pan given back by pastry taster (5)

10: Actor works on two dialects (5,8)

12: Flower shop nosh about $41 (5)

14: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

15: Prom couple steals crown from teen dress up (5)

16: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

19: Song describing rat in a place of calm and beauty (7)

20: Please start to sing at one San Francisco club (7)

21: Words can be arranged to be cutting. (5)

22: Check about a form of power (5)

24: Staffed without Western religion (5)

27: Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)




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