Crossword for Wed, 17/Jan/2007

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Across
3: Okay shot ripped tears in butt (6-5)

7: Old fool is strange in New York (5)

8: Verily, the imperial fleet doth pine! (5)

10: Goddess is against holding back one Quebecoise (5)

11: Strip olive hedges in a Libyan locale (7)

12: In favor of echoing game call (3)

13: Moldering, moldering panhandler? (4,5)

15: Endless greeting after wine and cheese (4-5)

17: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

18: Nevertheless, hang about; we are inside (7)

19: Classic gibberish (5)

20: Feed all but the first stranger (5)

21: It might reside in monument! (5)

22: Mixed greens and teals, so dad's remodeled (6,5)

Down
1: Sent off info to npr.org? (9)

2: Stiff spelunker swallowed plug (7)

3: Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)

4: Psst! Losers rub us the wrong way, giving unpopular veggies (8, 7)

5: Apologetic slime were confused about knowledge. (15)

6: Staying out when it's dark (7)

9: Love our following morning (5)

14: Took a load off awfully thin ledge (9)

15: Father married, and had his hands all over her. (5)

16: Daydream about one American patriot (7)

17: Be gone, preparing kebab meal in Sydney Muslim heartland (7)

21: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)





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