Crossword for Tue, 3/Nov/2009

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Across
1: Lear tangled with leader of Middle Kingdom (5)

4: Trying restful turns around ship (9)

9: Wild bears to become a big-mouth (7)

10: Junk food--its odor? Stinky (7)

11: Lasso a large animal, making first off for north (5)

13: Most in side swim in Derbys river (9)

16: Designed dashing ten-ton pick-up (3-5,5)

18: A little sports car, let to harassed Southern belle (8,5)

22: Dance in Spooner's very cold prison (9)

23: Trunk contains piece of old knotted rope (5)

24: Yielded gutlessly, taking in hopeless cheat as he sailed by. (7)

27: Hide the real solution (7)

29: Segregate horses around the object of a hunt (6,3)

30: Confuse cast (5)
Down
1: Bird accompanying gangster or outlaw (5,4)

2: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)

3: Ran into a section of the time-table (3)

4: Exercise time inside (7)

5: Bloody bored inside (3)

6: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

7: Obese principal is a chump! (7)

8: Famous pianist's inclination for vocalizing (5)

12: Mid-East region is a metier confused (7)

14: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

15: Monster devouring head of old mounted soldier (7)

17: Tending in Southern California to fight straw man? (9)

18: Bugs going after quiet gags (7)

19: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)

20: Put out a journal in a foreign language (7)

21: Someone else embraced by Deianeira, not Heracles (7)

22: Elation leads Anglican Irishman to write of home from abroad. (5)

25: Draw the knot (3)

26: Pass mould (3)

28: Perform part of play (3)




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