Crossword for Tue, 26/Feb/2013

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Across
1: Abridged fibre project (3)

4: Increase in force may finish in soccer riot (9)

8: Dizzy Ben is a playwright (5)

9: We hear former wife thrilled Richard, an odd person (9)

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

12: Five kills one. (3)

13: Note old fashioned opening with 2.54 cm bird (9)

17: Have misgivings (not half!) about making this gesture? (1-4)

18: Bush, senior (5)

19: Syrian mother with a part in a play (9)

20: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)

21: Clearances for the first couple of characters to find answers. (11)

26: Erma Roddy smoked a Camel (9)

27: Its out-of-date to need a permit for the course (5)

28: Settle standard kilometer (4)

29: Looks like an eyesore, sounds like an eyesore (3)
Down
1: Dive in amidst scrap (5)

2: Partially affect a steak's flavor (5)

3: Material extracted, sent back (5)

4: Degraded tip of compost heap spoiled Eden (9)

5: Best Southern general retreats riding cross-country (5)

6: Trickster waits for jams (9)

7: Account for musical river having flowed uphill (9)

10: Can eels freely bathe? (7)

13: Fancied whos coming to dinner, we hear (7)

14: Need tools to break up a valuable rock(9)

15: The sky in the Bible is solid...true? True (9)

16: Greeting South-East Asian from Tibet? (9)

22: Point to friendly crowd (5)

23: Subject to constant cold (5)

24: Do as I say in short retreat (5)

25: Shabby but virile? (5)




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