Crossword for Thu, 26/Jan/2017

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Across
1: Climbers in tumbling tailspins (9)

5: Accommodate bear (3,2)

8: Ceases running features about Republican in serious trouble (4,7)

10: Heavy metal group X (4)

11: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

12: Try to seduce (7)

14: Crime's delays? (4-3)

16: Principle unaffected by revolution (5)

18: Dating from birth in South African province (5)

19: Empty pail beneath sack (7)

22: Song about death for lover of Theseus (7)

24: Complain about the horse (3)

25: Short bloke discontinued hike (3)

26: Crazy to clean sons in awful mess (11)

29: After party longing for senior member (5)

30: A country, one said, in trouble (9)
Down
2: Sire, he made 99 in match (like this) (15)

3: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)

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

5: Nightwear and jersey top added in afterthought (3)

6: Powerful individual accommodates American doctor connected with parts of hospital drama (5,10)

7: Annoying ad for toaster design? (3-2)

9: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

11: Rinse out pine compound (5)

12: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

13: West's last: bottom spade, perhaps (5)

15: Reliable noise (5)

17: Strap, though short, has hanger's heart (5)

20: Pass mould (3)

21: Intimidated, we tucked into fish (5)

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

26: Sister gets nothing, we hear (3)

27: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

28: Child, bask by the sound (3)




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