Crossword for Sun, 26/Feb/2012

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Across
1: Scheme conclusion for jet set (5)

4: Great praise for the accountant with demand. (7)

9: Local bounder flooded field, say, producing fruit (9)

10: Gather together with former U.S. statesman in the audience (5)

11: Brand of cat food containing bird's head and feet (5)

12: Standard style of music rejected (3)

13: Its strange to go back to a novice for a wall decoration (5)

14: At one time, gobbling up two tablespoons (5)

15: Minor work taking half a month - an endless epistle (9)

17: Spend too much time on the track where powerlines are frequently found. (4-5)

19: Erin's heir is hardly content (5)

21: Believer with no head for bank job (5)

23: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)

24: Boy gripping top of pine tree (5)

25: Talk about a set of stores (5)

26: Cleopatra and her court's quirky pet saying (9)

28: A former Middle-Eastern leader who is reasonable in discussion (7)

29: Latin lives of Evita explained within (5)

Down
2: Stomach is disturbed, bad sign (7)

3: Aroused with short tutu, mesmeric midsection, and perfume (9)

4: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

5: Invention to trick four into a stupor (11)

6: Pathological bumbler holds a record (5)

7: Curate ran immediately back inside tower (7)

8: A cold fish embraces that woman's mortal weaknesses (8,5)

9: Logical oil Polish chap applied (13)

12: Sent one page rewritten in military lingo (11)

16: Almost as it happens, keeping erratic time to recurrent theme (9)

18: With Pat, I persevere, biting back final words? (7)

20: It involves, initially, my intention to fake right, perhaps? (7)

22: Appreciation without hot water containers (5)

27: Club with space for some money (3)





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