Crossword for Sat, 26/Feb/2011

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Across
1: Endless barbecue arranged for young carnivore (4,3)

5: Steal ring, then twitch like a mechanical man (7)

9: Raise streamlined submarine stabilizers! (5)

10: German award making press cranky (4,5)

11: Horse eating western mountain ash (5)

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

16: Small piece of fish (3)

17: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

19: Cheyenne Mountain installation produces radon mixture (5)

20: 'Another execrable score,' Jack Nicklaus finally fumes (5)

21: Sound of river crossing (3)

22: Thumb Drum? (3)

23: Get your paper here! Amphibious creature seizes steamship; a number dead (9)

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

26: Some leading trios are essentially reenacting poems (4,5)

27: Shower time, Bonzo? Spring, I hear (5)

29: Lose, divided by pitcher's error (7)

30: Again Italian couple is late (7)
Down
1: Thirteen broken adzes repaired (6,5)

2: Copy of top ten missing (3)

3: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

4: Airship loose after opening bombardment (5)

5: Reading or writhing in river (3,6)

6: Steer TS into alternative routes (4,7)

7: E.g., told story about cave-men (11)

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

12: Western retreat satisfactory, accepted by canoeists and surfers? (3,8)

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

15: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

18: Team's outstanding player goes onto Disabled List. It's all in a day, but really low (9)

24: Dance form: one circle next to another (5)

26: Direct object (3)

27: Consumed and digested tea (3)

28: Bloody bored inside (3)




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