Crossword for Thu, 18/Dec/2008

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Across
1: Shelter Dracula's heart - he's representing blood-suckers (7)

4: Records that could be hits (7)

7: Keeps turning nastier (7)

9: No hot tamale in this dish (7)

11: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

12: Hostile warning: one man has captured the queen (11)

14: Impatient dope confused designated hour (9,4)

15: Ellen, golf wife, creates a sense of joint interest (6,7)

18: Conclude a recitation off-key (11)

19: Bloody bored inside (3)

20: Outstanding saltine crackers? (7)

22: Sounds like one having requirements for masseur (7)

24: Digs the reforms, having vision (7)

25: Driver who's disappeared in conflict (7)
Down
1: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

2: Englishman opening a can to dine at home (3,2)

3: Make known one pound increase after high school (7)

4: Guess what the benighted marksman did? (4,2,3,4)

5: Fiction position (3)

6: Inspects old radical for a moment (5, 6)

8: Awful din; ill effects were her own doing (4-9)

10: Excessively sentimental dunderhead in the river (5)

11: Incomplete raw data lies in largely unexplored regions (4,7)

13: Looking at a little monkey in glee (5)

14: Shoelace tip has baby bird losing its head (5)

16: Clean air makes Australia singular (5)

17: Choice bergamot subdues growler (7)

19: Hazardous emanation from river used by a crime boss (5)

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

23: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)




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