Crossword for Thu, 15/Jan/2009

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Across
2: Aboard a ship is shipping magnate (7)

6: Globe's automobile award (5)

9: Holder of strange ritual of troll (5,8)

10: Spot stick-in-the-mud Republican with fan (7)

12: Herb gets into place for icy dessert (7)

13: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

14: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)

16: A favourite car of Seattle natives. (11)

18: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

19: Describes a northeastern state and some ancient Britons (7)

20: Feet of people who get talked about (7)

22: Canadian water ordered for regal tea-break (5,4,4)

24: Zoom back from the deeps (5)

25: Ancient historian understood America (7)
Down
1: Capital - a Schubert composition (9)

2: Inactive side (3)

3: Love affair for one like Othello, we hear (5)

4: Pilot sometimes sounded more irritated (5)

5: Beginning to send poor around north and south for support (7)

6: Do another version of Kerouac's work (2,3,4)

7: Rebel action disrupted festival (11)

8: Severely criticise Astor novel (5)

11: 7-down relic? (6,5)

14: Died terribly - ate in. CD inscribed in affection (9)

15: Lily Tomlin character inside her nest in Ecuador (9)

17: Admire well-designed sceptre (7)

19: Siphon windy painter? (5)

20: Empty 3-down almost rolling in song (5)

21: State charted illegal payments (5)

23: Aliens set off (3)




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