Crossword for Fri, 17/Jul/2009

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Across
1: Blasts most of eucalypt stumps (5)

3: Someone in favour of wine in jolly good surroundings (9)

7: Send in the beer, Saint Peter (7)

9: One hundred listed as 'washed up' (7)

10: Sweet stuff to eat around 1991, e.g. (5)

11: Article entered in it that is a point for silly remarks (9)

13: Nothing we have to pay (3)

14: An oral examination is not advised if one has this sort of foresight (4,5)

15: They say the headmaster should be guided by this (9)

19: Draw the knot (3)

20: It's initially recording automobiles speed, leading to charge (5,4)

21: Capone frequently gets high (5)

22: Lament the first person heard in good judgment (4,3)

23: Get cosy slip due to fray (5,2)

24: Resist having platform (9)

25: One who regrets following initial tendencies is increasingly sincere (5)
Down
1: Mary-Jane crochets her Pop a jumper (11)

2: Company trapped by inflation is cause of great trouble (7)

3: Carol goes round Royal Botanic Gardens, taking an oblique course (7)

4: Fling an item of furniture (3,5,5)

5: North African port with more flavour (7)

6: Bloody bored inside (3)

8: Gradually reduce European Community requisitions for playback devices (4,9)

9: Inherently reproach affinity for worthless stuff (5)

12: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

16: Was resident hidden in wild net? (7)

17: Analyze rotten pears (5)

18: What models do when embraced by former Democrat leader - all is revealed (7)

19: He wrote about life in the woods. You read mostly inside (7)

22: Famous gardens said to move one to speak. (3)




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