Crossword for Thu, 5/Jun/2008

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Across
1: Sounds like a bright child (3).

3: Belated top-and-tailing to gladden one's heart (5)

6: Plan to return with woman (3)

7: Threefold test (5)

8: Undersized ones gripping coin, for starters (9)

11: Tiny bit of self-interest (5)

12: Top card? Excellent! (3)

13: Rue loss of rare bird (5)

14: Terrier shows how to stray (3)

Down
1: Penniless meal is fantastic (5)

2: Vet theatre opening 8-down (3)

3: Perhaps men sit and eat in a cafe (9)

4: Neil Armstrong, first to return from another world? (5)

5: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

9: Delay yield (5)

10: Navigate by terse directions (5)

11: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)

12: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)





Solution (Reversed)
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P
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