Crossword for Mon, 30/Dec/2013

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Across
1: Frost to cover the cake (3)

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

8: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

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

11: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

12: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

13: Sound practical perception is a normal feeling (11)

17: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

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

20: Exchange concealed proprietary knowledge (5,6)

22: Be prepared with amnesties for truancy (11)

26: Inactive side (3)

27: Intruders bury proles in pieces (11).

28: Couple in arduous dispute (3)

30: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

31: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)
Down
1: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

2: This would make me a lord (7)

3: Doll part, that is (5)

4: Chip is describing rare bird call (5)

5: Yogi's enthralled by boundless flings and deviant behavior (9)

6: Duck's primary seducer! (5)

7: Missed hoax set up to trap Sunday drunk outside saloon entrance (4,5,2)

10: Globe's automobile award (5)

11: Support sign for subordinates (11)

14: Choose to take the top off (3)

15: Hopped up and won easily in sudden spurt (6-3)

16: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)

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

21: Place new requisition about the brotherhood (7)

23: Tender translator of runes (5)

24: Frost over mid-January during epic exploit (3,2)

25: Scrooge in film is erratic (5)

29: Nothing we have to pay (3)




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