Crossword for Tue, 10/Aug/2010

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Across
1: Their game baffled a cloister (9)

5: Water plants used in informal Gaelic gardens (5)

8: An animal which flies high but comes back for a place to wash (7)

9: Lead around other green (7)

10: Measure of heat in the empty room (5)

11: Birds in the wilderness (5)

12: Dyslexic's tired and distressed (5)

14: Overly flattering, interminably grown-up and a conservative (9)

15: Two characters together, drunk, hit PhD on the third of August (9)

16: Main nerve carries most central portion (5)

18: Words can be arranged to be cutting. (5)

19: Take in to feed silver winner (5)

21: Hot and sultry, stripping right in current (7)

23: Tide recedes in love, in this version. (7)

24: Quietly pulls electrical connectors (5)

25: Stabbed, bark 'A Kennedy' (9)
Down
1: Ingrained reaction at home for wildlife (7)

2: Again, make fast about dead heat (5)

3: Feeling threatened, suggested concealing identity (11)

4: Like a high ranking diplomat's awful ambrosia salad (13)

5: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

6: Where one may play an instrument as a novice (9)

7: Yes, MBAs worked with a diplomatic staff (7)

9: Aunt Peg really messed up the cheap seats (6,7)

11: Arranged date in Cairo means extermination (11)

13: I'm ready to attend university without preparation (9)

15: Computer screen is OK with time sped up (7)

17: Grass surrounds cask, newly calibrated (7)

20: A simpleton, folksy Ugandan leader is followed by an Occupational Therapist (5)

22: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)




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