Crossword for Wed, 15/Oct/2008

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Across
1: Jewish leader in a bar tossed out pig meat (7)

4: Laid off, breadwinner's starting to wing it (2-3)

8: Site of the Taj Mahal seen in faint illustration (7)

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

11: Looks like an eyesore, sounds like an eyesore (3)

12: Sixth anniversary of an affair? (9)

13: Horse eating western mountain ash (5)

15: Cutthroat congressman's back in lifeless Ohio primary (9)

16: Marauder contaminating a pet river (9)

18: Gag about alien in Royal Childrens Hospital (5)

19: Strangely enough, cat's lease keeps getting bigger (9)

20: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

21: Language - one with a Latin derivation (7)

22: Jimmy Garner's cops (7)

23: In conversation, lists charges (5)

24: There is a Santa, perhaps (7)
Down
2: Set display on the Fourth of July (5)

3: Intrudes with a telephone faux pas? (5,2)

4: Runner or dramatist in play (13)

5: Opponent of new technology did play instrument outside (7)

6: Very clever fish ain't at sea (9)

7: Has beach porno upset those repulsed by Web developers? (13)

8: Vicious return to professional serve reveals the inequality. (13)

9: Fine legs confused emotions (5,8)

14: There's very little we back completely in status symbol (9)

17: Attribute to a copyist (7)

18: Came up with an invitation at last for the Man in Blacks daughter (7)

20: Robe's eyelet exposes more than fat (5)




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