Crossword for Sun, 31/Jan/2010

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Across
1: Inexperience

4: Disappoint

8: More adept

9: Improve visibility, in a way

10: Wharf pest

11: Tiny tyke

12: Tough-skinned mammals

14: Continue to rant

16: Show passion

17: Ghost

19: Busts, maybe

21: Hazarding a guess: worker with really good manners?

23: Minor player, so to speak

25: Paving goo

27: Own the throne

28: Peasant

29: Loathes

30: North Atlantic hazard
Down
1: Rump or round cut

2: Rehearsal

3: Terrestrial

4: Tomorrow's dinner, maybe

5: Barge helper

6: It may go for a dip in the ocean

7: Trait of a Dapper Dan

9: Quick swim

13: A jab well done

14: Was a POSSLQ

15: Police department

18: Pubs

20: Life story?

22: Charged particle

24: Russian prison camp

26: Out of work? (abbr.)




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