Crossword for Thu, 8/Oct/2009

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Across
1: Hit rump exuberantly in victory (7)

5: Mystic eats piece of donut in ritual meal (5)

9: Not in action referred to (7)

10: Dead time after amusement in December (7)

11: Prophecies of return of dissolute actress (9)

13: Discharge space-talk (5)

14: Playboy has gone to get a share in the profit (4-3)

17: Drained journo covers polly deadlock (7)

19: Mrs. Roosevelt East, Trim, Oregon (7)

20: Magician's handy craft of little importance for the auditor (7)

21: Spices clubs (5)

23: Resist having platform (9)

26: Poorer and more squalid, heading from south to north (7)

27: Incorporated transportation firm and bank (7)

30: Collars rowdies in the audience (5)

31: Make notes on hiding greeting (7)
Down
1: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)

2: Children nicely holding back secret (5)

3: Bumped into yours truly at junction (3).

4: Dreadful shade rules the Underworld. (5)

5: Avoids seeds, pits, nuts (9)

6: Delay yield (5)

7: Delivering conclusion with hesitation in boxing arena (9)

8: Feeling threatened, suggested concealing identity (11)

11: Fashion term heartless: Feeling up Blossom (6-2-3)

12: Emblem of sovereignty that was a quarter-pounder? (5)

15: Don't obstruct slippery eel packer (4,5)

16: Forks over wire customized for special explosives (9)

18: Sleep around in sheds (5)

22: Rigid body. (5)

24: One who takes after beggarman (5)

25: Arranging bail, one makes plea (5)

28: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

29: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)




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