Crossword for Wed, 29/Aug/2012

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Across
1: Healthy, but lacking first beer (3)

3: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

9: Get rid of the circle and end the telephone call (4,3)

10: Approaching related band, apparently (7)

11: New Moslem art depicts turbulent situation (9)

13: Route around exterior (5)

14: Moscow politician revolting in style (7)

17: Freshly pick up select book on top (7)

18: Claims, and retracts, 'Actress Ward Uses Hair Product' (7)

19: I left terminus, breaking a bone (7)

21: Outcasts return will elicit disgust (5)

23: Support caliph, ultimately; reflective quote is portentous (9)

27: So disgusting no-one takes part? (7)

28: Busy Florida solicitor. (4, 3)

30: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)

31: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)
Down
1: A supporter starting to mock President Garfield's middle name (5)

2: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)

3: Hovers over weaving implements (5)

4: Delay yield (5)

5: Bring ashore German notes with famous features (9)

6: Fade over a tape, when edited (9)

7: A period set around one Dostoyevsky character (5)

8: Mathematician's analysis of former Vice President's movements? (9)

12: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

14: Young horses mistakenly resign early without hesitation (9)

15: Wise bird is after Sunday clothes for part of a service (5,4)

16: Relative takes funny pose on glass bridge? (9)

20: Capture ten heading north (3)

22: Haughtiness of a bunch of cats (5)

24: Sound frequently killed (5)

25: Keep firm about the ring (5)

26: Skin gash exists (5)

29: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)




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