Crossword for Sat, 15/Jul/2006

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

3: Boil pasta for one; 'no more' (9)

6: Radio hosts drink little (5)

7: Arabs lost sneaky bird (9)

10: Don't obstruct slippery eel packer (4,5)

14: Worms grab venture capital (9)

15: Real idiot garbled opiniated commentary (9)

16: To get revenge, we tail a terrorist hiding in retreat (9)

20: Crude barbarian leads rough search (2,7)

21: West's last: bottom spade, perhaps (5)

22: Neat plastic hash pipes (9)

23: Excite mirth in a daughter of Mnemosyne (5)
Down
1: Scarf free tacos (5)

2: Caress one grand puzzlemaster (5)

4: Orchestra I'm reorganizing for certain conductor (11)

5: Heels were repaired in another place (9)

7: Top card? Excellent! (3)

8: Turncoat's first motive for disloyalty (7)

9: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)

11: Horrid, filthy lucre (5)

12: Prune plums for reserves, once more (9)

13: Nothing added to list for early riser (7)

14: Question number one (5)

17: What's left when you burn the tree (3)

18: Crowd scene actor appearing in special edition (5)

19: Uncovered selection is of considerable size (5)




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