Crossword for Sun, 9/Sep/2007

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Across
1: Robin Goodfellow's ice hockey requisites (5)

4: Coats need woven yarns (9)

10: Left out cheese for parasites (7)

11: Old Mongoloid to farewell religious leader (5)

12: Control escape (3)

13: Those with regrets reining in destroyers (7)

14: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

15: Enticements disrupt mental rules (11)

16: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

17: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

19: Toss a hammer into a nuclear accelerator! (4,7)

24: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

25: The rate changed at movie house (7)

26: Frost to cover the cake (3)

27: Vapour in the street the final morning (5)

28: Gave up and produced (7)

29: It's truly deep at sea, so they say (9)

30: Gantry in Hilton Hotel, Mermaid Beach (5)

Down
2: Officer is bit of a nut, they say (7)

3: Shepherd, at times, is more abrupt in tone (7)

4: Time has corroded faithlessness (7)

5: Oriental festival on the first of November (7)

6: Loathes key English exams (7)

7: Small songbirds destroyed mitt near diamond (7)

8: Reformed drinker helps a water distributor (9,4)

9: Opening event in cruise: Iran art display (7-6)

18: Get cosy slip due to fray (5,2)

19: Have a go at draw (7)

20: Odysseus' first requirement - to catch you like Polyphemus? (3-4)

21: Eccentric French composer (a base thief to his family) creates a cloying atmosphere (7)

22: Shorten a game (7)

23: Broken home rid of beneficiarys condition (7)





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