Crossword for Sun, 26/Oct/2008

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Across
2: Travel - pioneering art form (13)

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

10: Newspaper kid gets into music (7)

11: Person pressing a lawsuit torched one reptile? (9)

12: Has great success taking in an unspecified number of intimates (5)

13: Free traders had leading parts (7)

17: I competed with climbers on the walls? (5)

19: Too bad about first of tests for strong man (5)

20: Driver who's disappeared in conflict (7)

22: Fortunate brave gets a late start (5)

23: Baffling wild giant mice (9)

26: Those with regrets reining in destroyers (7)

27: Whip up perfume (7)

29: Those who study bugs' motion got less confused (13)

Down
1: Sci-fi pioneer composes Mercury Sources (1.1.,5)

2: Fold suit and undershirt (5)

3: Road without a pole (4)

4: and 15 Novel alternative excised from huge spits (5,12)

5: I renew one TV in a complicated way to get an oral examination (9)

6: A flare-up is getting off 23-across (9)

7: Massive dinosaur hiding in Antigua? No, Donna! (9)

8: 'Naked Gun' actor prepares to be dubbed in (in soundtrack) (7)

14: Government-hater ravaging China star (9)

15: Four runners usually talk about YMCA in the morning (5,4)

16: Spread Dianne's pearls around (9)

18: Free to turn some integral tables (2,5)

21: Wealthiest Rhode Island bureau (7)

24: Cake decoration methods essentially deleted from ancient Chinese book (5)

25: Appreciation without hot water containers (5)

28: Mediterranean leaves unfashionable coins? (3)





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