Crossword for Wed, 22/Apr/2009

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Across
1: Skipped the French army physical training (5)

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

7: Child, bask by the sound (3)

9: Greenest state with the least elevation (9)

10: Accidentally unsex group with ties (5)

11: Planned modus operandi led in both directions (7)

12: Introduce me to Southwestern bean stuffing for olives (7)

15: Weapons in a womans speech (11)

17: I shall be sick! (3)

18: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)

19: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

22: Intrudes with a telephone faux pas? (5,2)

23: Airless Australian variety of grape (7)

26: Canoe lost in sea (5)

28: Established to trick company editor (9)

29: Perform part of play (3)

30: Yes. No. Maybe. Getting personal (5)

31: Sister leaves, seeing torment of supernatural servant (5)
Down
1: Deputy at clock centre sounds hesitant (5)

2: At first, actors I directed did poorly (5)

3: E.g., told story about cave-men (11)

4: Grant again drew one crookedly (7)

5: Spout off, immersed in Homer, to quick-tempered person (7)

6: Throw out faulty nib (3)

7: Sixth anniversary of an affair? (9)

8: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

13: Actress Tori, lacking direction, is getting the characters out of order(11)

14: Stan's partner is central to Follies (5)

15: Gather together with former U.S. statesman in the audience (5)

16: Corner I established confines the most unruly (9)

20: They can't reproduce sounds like an operating system (7)

21: Mary gets back to business running building trade (7)

24: Pitcher, lunatic, not married (5)

25: Confuse Garfield, dashing back inside (5)

26: Partial approval for eggs (3)

27: Sister gets nothing, we hear (3)




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