Crossword for Fri, 29/Aug/2008

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Across
1: Pauses awkwardly after error but steadies nerves (5,2)

5: Digs the reforms, having vision (7)

9: Able to contend, not being disheartened (9)

10: Remove bombast from French painter? (5)

11: Film relay got mixed up (5)

13: Place to grow fruit trees, or a leafy veggie (7)

16: Tender command (3)

17: Girl hatches subterfuge in prison tower (11)

18: Leaving firm when dating (5,6)

21: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)

22: Mortified humans - fifty per cent felt great pity (7)

23: Lustful inside, eager and young (5)

25: Trainee repudiates closing plant? (5)

27: Cautioned about teaching (9)

29: In last couple of buildings, plumb drains (7)

30: Left out cheese for parasites (7)
Down
1: Surpass former church leader, at first (5)

2: In all, just a little peak. (3)

3: Fish found in the mountains (7)

4: Rifles protect lady from 16-down overhead (11)

5: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

6: Duck turning up initially looking like a Walt Disney animated goose (7)

7: Draw a stomach uprising (3)

8: Rip apart and mostly reject old ballplayer (9)

12: Unknown little princess turning food with tongue (7)

14: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

15: Got crazy, wearing feathers in colony of rodents (3,4)

16: Opening bet nearly winning at rummy? (9)

19: True gem discovered within landscape feature (3-4)

20: Distance to pull cart up before time (7)

24: Pulls Americans (5)

26: Worthless even when recycled (3)

27: Aliens set off (3)

28: Equips for attacks (4)




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