Crossword for Wed, 9/Aug/2006

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Across
1: A murder suspect, one hears? (7)

5: How to secure man-haters at last (5)

9: An exceptionally attractive person may be met aboard (9)

11: Dizzy Ben is a playwright (5)

12: Roosevelt's undergarment? (5)

13: Michael Caine, first outspoken host (5)

14: Small piece of fish (3)

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

18: Support a deranged original (11)

20: Standard style of music rejected (3)

22: Penniless meal is fantastic (5)

24: Reliable noise (5)

25: Gnomelike feature of parallel fingers (5)

27: Essays about old dramatic works (9)

30: Pour dripping over tack (5)

31: Doctor East, half American, is a wishful thinker (7)
Down
1: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

2: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

3: Game for drunkard (5)

4: Anchors in peat bogs (5)

6: Most important rule, they say (9)

7: Call for help oddly stops (3)

8: A child toils to produce poems (7)

10: Belgian port getting rid of an idiot (5)

12: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)

15: Throw out faulty nib (3)

16: Times leader knocks adornments (9)

17: A representative may be a scamp (3)

18: Apt trial for those said to survive (7)

19: A heron regrets losing its wings (5)

21: Bloody bored inside (3)

23: Mrs Schmidt's penny is fake (5)

24: Reportedly viewed some of play (5)

26: Chain some; cuff objectors (3)

28: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

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




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