Crossword for Sun, 15/Jan/2012

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Across
1: Fire still in old instrument (7)

5: Incomprehensible English is the sign of a professional (7)

8: Can lot be plastered around the jug at night? (9)

9: Exhausted writer found in street (5)

10: To be a cowboy in a northern range by the Sound (7)

11: Shared out fairly, in a parrot fashion (3,4)

13: Part of the USA obscured by mist and dew? (7)

14: Fool to join recital (3)

15: Song is a gas (3)

17: They can't reproduce sounds like an operating system (7)

18: Sickened to have almost dropped plough (4,3)

19: Again dices pith of herb as stuffing for baguettes (7)

21: Pan given back by pastry taster (5)

23: Spider is natural at spinning (9)

24: Up in grassy area around Kentucky (7)

25: Film star nuts about sheep (3,4)

Down
1: Tendon's abnormal growth is in remission (5)

2: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

3: Rocks lure a breeding fish (4,9)

4: Decades established as most uptight (7)

5: Sailor to criticise abundant 19-across source (7)

6: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)

7: Captures openings (9)

9: Drive away roofing material before farmhouse becomes a target area (8,5)

12: Sadly curtail urge for land cultivation (11)

13: Reveals fatness I'm developing (9)

16: Right--Happy is in the same family (7)

17: Something that may move a hammer to engineer a murder (7)

20: Jump Begin (5)

22: Attempt test (3)





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