Crossword for Fri, 12/Jan/2007

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Across
1: Grave study: code-breaking? (13)

7: A little sports car, let to harassed Southern belle (8,5)

10: Gorilla taking head off at it's base! (3)

11: City Auto Club's closing, mired in debt (7)

12: Castro led, granting that uprising (5)

13: Hum like a bee? (5)

15: Number One in facetiousness (3)

16: Attempt test (3)

17: Rue loss of rare bird (5)

18: Italian god after precious metal sound (5)

20: Curve interrupts any kind of chaos (7)

21: About....about right? Wrong! (3)

22: A cold fish embraces that woman's mortal weaknesses (8,5)

24: Dry vegetarian, about to like this puzzle, perhaps? (6, 7)
Down
2: Dee Star danced in two clubs recently (9)

3: Clothilda is carrying a parcel (3)

4: Company trapped by inflation is cause of great trouble (7)

5: Law, say, constraining trade union leaders (7)

6: Fairy tale character concealed in simulated war front (5)

8: Gershwin comes back on train with tortured spirit (5)

9: Cosmetics queen holds kickoff for 'Nasturtium Wash' (7)

14: Torch is terrible when head is in the sand. (7)

15: Recipient of drink describing gown with energy (9)

16: Take peach heart to make sweet tart (7)

17: Coral Sea, perhaps, without a fish (7)

18: Entertain one of nine daughters of Mnemosyne (5)

19: Daytime TV show one of the Marx brothers brought back (5)

23: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)




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