Crossword for Thu, 6/Jan/2011

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Across
1: Scarf free tacos (5)

4: We tangled with this old kitchen cloth (4,5)

9: One who regrets keeping large measuring stick (5)

10: Ninth-inning heroics on one side or the other (9)

11: Tepid on Germany's military advocate (9)

12: March follower off with pair left behind (5)

13: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

14: Support a deranged original (11)

18: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)

21: Nothing we have to pay (3)

22: Retro gents in exotic parks (5)

24: Exploits, in Time, founder and glow cold (9)

26: Grow envious with seabird sounding environmental (4,5)

28: Bumps into butcher's display of tongue? (5)

29: Unmatched on plainer work (9)

30: Horrid, filthy lucre (5)
Down
1: Pointer is slender, lacking tip (5)

2: Poet or old king on crest (9)

3: Vessel in swell exit (7)

4: The stagecoach industry (9)

5: Take Chair in university (3)

6: Tailless seabird atop family veranda (7)

7: Mount Ahab, say (5)

8: True-blue pub changes at heart (5)

13: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)

15: I am a blond, going to pot around the midsection (9)

16: True philosopher that suits the bride (9)

17: Fiction position (3)

19: Pacino returns with story about Northern Italian dish (7)

20: Potent candy I'm stirring (7)

22: Decimal, in many cases (5)

23: Expert standing in an area at the front of the stage (5)

25: Facility left for supporter of the arts? (5)

27: I am reported to leer (3)




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