Crossword for Wed, 29/Oct/2008

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Across
1: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

3: 15-acrosss toilet pot? Rubbish! (5,6)

9: A New York organised group, one of little importance (7)

10: Requiring what sounds like massaging (7)

11: Oddballs go right to Kansas (5)

13: Crazy ogre royal? I hear you! (5)

15: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)

16: A favourite car of Seattle natives. (11)

18: Song is a gas (3)

20: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

21: Inspects old radical for a moment (5, 6)

22: Half disapprove of old king (3)

23: Pour dripping over tack (5)

24: Scrooge in film is erratic (5)

25: Identify damage found in back of the ark (7)

27: Chat with pal and make a declaration (7)

29: Boob implant cups: sad hoax in line with 15-down (8,3)

30: Bite and flip over -- one way to win a wrestling match (3)

Down
1: University boards tailless orange and light brown ape (9)

2: Sounds like a wolf on the coast (3)

3: We hear sniffer is acquainted with the facts (5)

4: Totally lacking a lofty plaything (3)

5: Club with space for some money (3)

6: Diamonds for newlywed, coating grand frail spanner (3-6)

7: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

8: Tramp and rake over green (5)

12: One later enters, like, with matching sides (11)

13: Again dices pith of herb as stuffing for baguettes (7)

14: Girl set to clean up bad meat (7)

17: Convertible has odd bar in instrument panel (9)

19: It's initially recording automobiles speed, leading to charge (5,4)

22: Belgian port getting rid of an idiot (5)

24: Gibson working for shareholders' profit (5)

26: Famous gardens said to move one to speak. (3)

27: Plan to return with woman (3)

28: 23% of Scandinavians backing leaders (3)





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