Crossword for Sun, 14/Feb/2010

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Across
1: Hostile warning: one man has captured the queen (11)

6: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)

8: Ball-horses are travellers! (5-8)

10: Makes empty noises behind listener. (5)

11: Encrusted with crustaceans, with salt stripped out? (9)

12: Weight thrown around by tragic men (9)

14: Making out and squealing after the top comes off? (5)

16: Scheme I enter into direct (5)

17: Guy tails Rod's agent (9)

20: Plastic canister filled with fifty licorice sticks (9)

22: Pilot sometimes sounded more irritated (5)

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

24: Five kills one. (3)

25: Does the wandering hero duly hostess perplex? (7)

Down
1: Flower - say, in Victoria's province - to raise (9)

2: One girl fashioned restrictive attachment (3,4)

3: The Irish are working for small clubs (5)

4: Murder novel grips a listener (7)

5: Extremely tense many times about a private conversation (4-1-4)

6: Warning sound in audio of Jodie Foster movie (5)

7: Broke out of cell -- found in prickly sedges (5)

9: Coal remaining at the end of a month (5)

13: Conspired to be captivated. (9)

15: Makes teenagers unruly (9)

17: Magician's handy craft of little importance for the auditor (7)

18: Headless rodent left by bird (5)

19: Rams try beating hounds to death (7)

20: Bobby-Ray slashed coconut meat (5)

21: American capital supplied plant (5)

22: Shabby but virile? (5)





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