Crossword for Thu, 15/May/2008

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Across
3: Upset top duo; I went and confessed (5,2,2,2)

8: Smallest small car, quite silent (7)

11: Recluse before had a very small sum of money (7)

12: Does not see the advertisement because it is in the wrong section. (13)

13: Runner or dramatist in play (13)

15: Changes direction with care, as befits a benefactor. (4, 4, 5)

19: Like a high ranking diplomat's awful ambrosia salad (13)

20: Found over everything that's left on craft (7)

21: Thirteenth in a series, ER's about an Aussie racketeer who took repeated slams? (7)

22: I deem turds a regrettable necessity (11)
Down
1: I'm to intercede without delay (9)

2: Little woman at her lowest point (7)

4: Sir Reed shot an American novelist (7)

5: Foresees a three iron, just as Cassandra did. (7, 6)

6: One in Dickens role is Sir Laurence (7)

7: Excessively sentimental dunderhead in the river (5)

9: Get the wrong idea, damn it, distressed about breaks (13)

10: A long way to go for a monomaniacal musician (5)

14: Writer producing page behind a king (9)

15: Adulterates by adding acid perhaps? (7)

16: Seek trail (2,5)

17: Gas makes one put on weight (5)

18: Appears that fine car is elevated (5,2)

19: Interest in a revolutionary activist's broadcast (5)




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