May, 2009
by Kegler

May, 2009 grid

Across
1Discount chain overturned public transportation regulation (3-4)
5Dull officeholders I paid not first-class (7)
9Reportedly followed pamphlet (5)
10Blank stare of female in contest, after punch (5,4)
11Bet on nun’s funny hat (9)
12Left Arizona mountain shopping center (5)
13Predator hiding in Windsor Castle (4)
14In backing homeland, Ed is enormously biased (3-5)
18Father rejected small craving (8)
20A couple of people awarded silver leaf (4)
24Greek character in bed recalled subject of conversation (5)
26Barge in a rec room’s entrance with skinny person? Just the opposite! (9)
27Meateater’s heart broken by a nurse with IV (9)
28Support two... (5)
29...aged men playing chess match finale (7)
30Writer Eliot has incredibly great goals (7)
Down
160’s dance craze turned up, I saw, around Utah (6)
2Run into skinnier student (7)
3Equally tense about Ron, a real space cadet? (9)
4Team’s leader imitating recording (6)
5Container for certain liquid in Kansas, brown and a bit dirty (8)
6Thin line of red in Western stones (5)
7Quiet boy collects automobile poster (7)
8Those who won’t quit dread his broadcast (8)
15Originally put in place member after the first month (9)
16Shred poet’s first newspaper report (8)
17Native Americans deal with ENT’s medical instrument (8)
19Decorated a bathroom, perhaps reaching a point with TP? (7)
21Junk gray clothing first (7)
22Faculty shelter covering nearly everyone (6)
23Candy’s collections enthralling our group (6)
25Some glitch in armor plate, perhaps (5)

Solution