Crossword for Sun, 23/Dec/2012

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Across
1: Begging for one during overthrow (9)

6: Got excited by unusual tulip (3,2)

9: Note code with sorrow (7)

10: Tolerate small stream (5)

11: Drunkard turns up near beach, reversing new habit, to sleep fitfully (4,3,4)

12: Neither's partner participated in an orchestra (3)

13: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)

14: Surprisingly, neither was in place. (7)

15: Tax expert set cap (3)

16: Capture ten heading north (3)

17: Drunk, I'm with a couple of bimbos on top of bed (7)

21: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

22: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

24: Orchestra I'm reorganizing for certain conductor (11)

26: Twice French mounted plain bovines (5)

27: Fish owned harbour (7)

28: Enough messing with me, pal (5)

29: Unfallen in gradual encirclement of city! (9)
Down
1: A great drink. (5)

2: Endless greeting after wine and cheese (4-5)

3: Thrash Elia a second time (7)

4: Shorten a spine with boron injection (7)

5: You once impounded mutt for UK band (3,4)

6: Bale-out? No! In French Mediterranean nation? (7)

7: Instrument on top of tree or shrub (5)

8: Repack? Foe repacks, but gives nothing away. (9)

13: I bang rock, disturbing snake (4,5)

15: Heartsore, Kate raced back to embrace the custodian (9)

17: Whip up perfume (7)

18: Brother finally changed sides at the bordello. (7)

19: Book half written by sculptor or composer (7)

20: Monster devouring head of old mounted soldier (7)

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

25: Redesigned color name tag (5)




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