Crossword for Wed, 10/Dec/2008

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Across
1: Harsh taxes on certain salts (9)

6: Plastic shelf for meat (5)

9: Horse fly's, um, retreating (7)

10: May voyage a spell (7)

12: Ever-practical, Mr. Vader keeps own little piggy (4-2-5)

13: Taking the future into consideration, Chaney acquires farmstead (4-5)

14: $100 accepted by tart in buff (5)

16: Sprinkles studs under reconstruction (5)

17: Aliens' organization trailed by very important rebel (9)

19: I see marks on jumbled party favors (11)

20: Blame cast about nine adept at blending in (7)

22: Daughter staring after gym teacher (7)

24: Caught carrying oregano's essence in inhalers (5)

25: Makes teenagers unruly (9)
Down
1: Thumb Drum? (3)

2: Some doctors oust head of Johnson and Johnson? (9)

3: Highway functions well until these are encountered? (9)

4: Seize broadcast mogul (7)

5: Southeastern Greek Island harbor (7)

6: Revolves around a star. (3)

7: The world's broken heart (5)

8: Healers swear by the cases of the little river horse. (11)

11: Boob implant cups: sad hoax in line with 15-down (8,3)

14: Giving up silly run, Reds tack on a couple of errors (9)

15: Sigh in the midst of plain neglect (9)

17: This sort of salad vegetable is found mostly below the surface. (7)

18: Make a point with writer following return of Cheers (7)

19: Accidentally unsex group with ties (5)

21: One may be transported by this kiss, it's said (3)

23: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)




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