Crossword for Thu, 1/Apr/2010

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Across
1: Hope and Crosby going up and down (7)

5: Cathy's new boat (5)

8: Odd bits of Niacin and Sprite (5)

9: Separate sort of cameo role (4,5)

11: Land and take off: beginning of flight (5)

12: Places and composition? (9)

13: Penniless meal is fantastic (5)

14: Genuine hesitation in church after transgression (7)

15: Sift around half-killed transporter (3-4)

17: Refuse to obey a French hooligan (5)

19: Foolishly get pardon from patron (9)

20: Children nicely holding back secret (5)

21: Essays about old dramatic works (9)

22: Poles suffer internally - they're hard (5)

24: Mrs Schmidt's penny is fake (5)

25: Pair of witnesses' mostly smooth transfer may end with Tony Soprano, possibly (7)

Down
1: Throw out faulty nib (3)

2: Gambler in the middle to call and raise (5,2)

3: Dine out and stop being vague (13)

4: Ministers ordain art evil? I doctor a reversal (13)

6: Mixed race had become a farce (7)

7: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)

9: Then, one crisis ends after call is for healthy exercises (13)

10: Drink to them, not with them. (6,7)

11: Missed hoax set up to trap Sunday drunk outside saloon entrance (4,5,2)

16: State goddess gets in first (7)

18: Zero writing for 'humble' Wilbur's speech? (7)

23: Pen extracts articles from satay (3)





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