Crossword for Sun, 11/Feb/2007

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Across
1: Starting again, beginning at eight and travelling West (4,2,6,3)

6: Laid up, Emma joins senior exercise club and complains loudly (7)

8: Wine and cheese brought back by Gershwin? (7)

10: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

11: Unfathomable letters from Lamb, say (7)

12: Two detectives produce a cosmetic (3,6)

16: Determination: we're not finished detaining sick P.O.W. (9)

18: From memory, next to courage (2,5)

20: Backblock not all there (3)

21: Rose was refined, but would never make a silk purse (4,3)

23: Encase most of the Ashes wrongly (7)

24: Returned from jog, made an unwise decision (5,2,8)
Down
1: Stabbed, bark 'A Kennedy' (9)

2: Judges made this committee cut lawn around Monday (6,3)

3: Shake three times with essence of magnesia (7)

4: Road without a pole (4)

5: Loathing for leader leaving platform (5)

7: Get cosy slip due to fray (5,2)

9: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

13: Bird seems unsure before small travelling salesmen (7)

14: One fowl and yet two foul (9)

15: The sky in the Bible is solid...true? True (9)

17: Hungarian composer on CD extra, perhaps, with Norwegian composer (7)

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

19: Where transport is provided by chopper (5)

22: Wander around inside territory (3)




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