Cryptic Puzzle - November 7, 2009
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Across

1Extensive property (10)
6Feathered, they skim the water (4)
10I held out for foreign capital (5)
11Promote a murderer and cause uproar (5,4)
12Paper that's bought to be thrown away (8)
13Lad that is treated right may become perfect (5)
15More than one player is in new boots (7)
17Old woman, maybe a grandma (7)
19Change gears, points and lubricants (7)
21Aviation spirit (7)
22I complain when she returns (5)
24One is not expected to live on them (4,4)
27Insulting attack (9)
28It's said in France to be the same (5)
29Port area (4)
30Just now - or just Christmas? (7,3)

Down

1Limits one's ambitions (4)
2Musketeer's call for a non-share policy? (3,3,3)
3What he does is appropriate (5)
4Clergymen curse at changes (7)
5Put it in log when working (7)
7Unable to sleep because of an all- night party (5)
8People having it agree - not to marry? (6,4)
9He may not like women. Bet Alice can change him (8)
14Ghastly woman author with blue veins (10)
16Meetings that have no standing? (8)
18Very pleased with the lamp indeed (9)
20At least he's private (7)
21Effusive oil producers? (7)
23Bid for a chest without a top (5)
25Left port with cargo (5)
26Reproduction is some matter for printers (4)

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