Crossword for Thu, 27/Dec/2007

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Across
1: Attacked with words to violate one's hearing (9)

6: Values of 100 missing from boxes (5)

9: Black hole shows how droppings take time (7)

10: Charged a couple of hundred, getting exploited (7)

11: Making Athenian weaver drink an informal toast (7,2)

14: Vegetable factory? (5)

15: Firm rear end (5)

16: Club with space for some money (3)

17: Soldier shelled in song from the past (5)

19: Condemned without love, like the Vatican (5)

20: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

22: Entertain cable channel hosting Total Recall (5)

23: Annoying ad for toaster design? (3-2)

24: Greek hero's a stranger among men (9)

25: Mean and crafty about being slender and graceful (7)

26: Climactic age opal tossed (7)

29: Lived down low in damp (5)

30: Alto I somehow kept in the dark, back during interactive broadcasting (4,5)
Down
2: 23% of Scandinavians backing leaders (3)

3: Anger that is constraining response (3)

4: Plant sincerity (7)

5: Late Greek god betraying no emotion (7)

6: Exchange recipe describing a small amount of relish on rolled up taco (11)

7: Drunkard turns up near beach, reversing new habit, to sleep fitfully (4,3,4)

8: Down by one shot (5)

9: Shameful young lady making her entrance in the manner of a talking horse (7)

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

13: Upset top duo; I went and confessed (5,2,2,2)

18: Bundy under English seabird thats forever! (7)

20: Ms. Turner returned to Club Street shrink (7)

21: Hikers' path around Virginia is hard work (7)

23: Father married, and had his hands all over her. (5)

27: Crew member is one in operating room (3)

28: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)




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