Crossword for Mon, 5/Dec/2011

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Across
1: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

3: Be prepared with amnesties for truancy (11)

9: French singer eats bit of leftover rice dish (5)

10: Moving haltingly, stopping short of the end (about a foot), by sundown (9)

11: Boxer Max returned, holding heroin, for treatment (5)

12: However, you expect trouble at first (3)

14: Neil Armstrong, first to return from another world? (5)

16: Foresees a three iron, just as Cassandra did. (7, 6)

17: Rise as in throw, perhaps, showing fitness to fly (13)

20: Irene's new name (5)

21: Neither partner finds way out of country (3)

22: Classic gibberish (5)

24: Fur from hormone treatment I took - it's mortifying (4,5)

26: Muse about weed on top of Olympus (5)

28: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

29: Nightwear and jersey top added in afterthought (3)

Down
1: Seasoning for lark (5)

2: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

3: A n-novel cordial (7)

4: Bright-sounding agenda touches on heavyweight legend (5,6)

5: Complain about the horse (3)

6: Draw out unknown performer before court (7)

7: Article entered in it that is a point for silly remarks (9)

8: Mother loiters and pretends to be ill (9)

13: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)

15: Balls thrown at gophers (9)

16: Everlasting ringing of changes, outside inside, upside down (9)

18: Eat after hollow enclosure is discovered (5,2)

19: Young hawks viciously eat legs (7)

23: We hear sniffer is acquainted with the facts (5)

25: A representative may be a scamp (3)

27: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)





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