Crossword for Mon, 24/Jul/2006

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Across
2: Pacino or Crowe? Insider returns to sing like Der Bingle (5)

5: Hero-worshipper dancing reel and jig (7)

8: See, you are a cad. (3)

9: Disturbed intruder, pet disturbed. (11)

11: Running back almost blew grand (5)

12: I've lost struggle (3)

14: Therefore, finish off this bit of work (3)

16: Love affair for one like Othello, we hear (5)

17: Preliminary form of conscription (5)

19: He went off to Nod, taking second-rate cottage (5)

20: Certain plants contributing to hectic activity (5)

21: Tender command (3)

23: Begin suspecting like you're clever (3)

24: The end of a fire (or a month?) (5)

26: Mere chance of depression interrupting peace (11)

29: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

30: A teetotaller in an imitation coat wielding a pick-axe (7)

31: Fold suit and undershirt (5)

Down
1: Support sign for subordinates (11)

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

3: Color orange upset poet something terrible (5,4)

4: Scale Ten after taxes (3)

5: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

6: Entertain one of nine daughters of Mnemosyne (5)

7: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)

10: Send back gangster's gun to get ID (3)

12: Scandinavian seafarers' six greatest leaders (7)

13: Old communist uprising described in distorted yell (7)

15: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)

18: Model unusually creepy hat (9)

21: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)

22: It's an uproar to travel with wild dog (5)

25: Explosion is bomb's first and last (5)

26: In all, just a little peak. (3)

27: Sort of uninitiated cheat (3)

28: One politician's a brat (3)





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