Crossword for Sun, 10/Dec/2006

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Across
1: Fruitless condition in South Africa (6,4,5)

5: Accidentally unsex group with ties (5)

7: Wretched sea creature eating a little (7)

8: Kept definitely in step (9)

10: Nightwear and jersey top added in afterthought (3)

11: Chump getting past in chasm (5)

13: Fairs with examples of sex positions (5)

14: Terrier shows how to stray (3)

15: A muskmelon or cola nut pa sliced (9)

17: Crime's delays? (4-3)

18: Small town, oddly, has room (5)

19: In very remote area H (6,2,7)
Down
1: Upset top duo; I went and confessed (5,2,2,2)

2: Sailors with thin skins are cinematic celebrities (4 5)

3: Reliable noise (5)

4: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)

6: Play faster in last 3/4 of piece with bass held backward (5,2)

7: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

8: Mixed greens and teals, so dad's remodeled (6,5)

9: Invention to trick four into a stupor (11)

11: Excessive praise for bad spelling ain't aloud (9)

12: The olde bull's last moo's for daffodils or buttercups, e.g. (7)

15: Horrid, filthy lucre (5)

16: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)




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