Crossword for Thu, 4/Jun/2009

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

6: Tine expert no good (5)

9: Musical composition pleasing to the ear (5)

10: Religious man rumoured to have been taken in by a whopper such as this. (5)

11: Startled, grabs sailor (3)

12: Try to seduce (7)

14: Extraordinary oldies I greatly revere (7)

15: Appeal, as I kneel, revealing special light in my eyes? (5)

17: Grass present round container (7)

18: A vagrant fishing-boat (7)

21: Teaching assistants run into hospital facility for shocker (5)

22: Watch Obadiah attend to customers (7)

23: Salt sees entrance taking in everyone (7)

25: Five kills one. (3)

26: Quick beer, right? (5)

27: Shabby and insolent, having no trace of breeding (5)

28: Fools the Proletariat after banning Marx's _Capital_ (5)

29: A nice gal's gone for a pain reliever (9)
Down
2: Dance starts to worry winner (5)

3: I am reported to leer (3)

4: To fascinate a disagreeable female we turned in (7)

5: Window worker beginning to get more indolent (7)

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

7: Gainers demonstrated by swimming baritones (9)

8: Dry vegetarian, about to like this puzzle, perhaps? (6, 7)

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

13: Trespass upon a moniker exploited by commercials (4,7)

16: Avoids seeds, pits, nuts (9)

19: There is a Santa, perhaps (7)

20: Target a misled boat race (8)

24: Singers in a special Tosca production (5)

27: Cleaning aid possessed by Fragonard (3)




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