Crossword for Sun, 18/Dec/2011

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Across
1: 'Gigolo, Inc.' lothario sporting primitive G-string (9)

6: Deputy at clock centre sounds hesitant (5)

9: One implement for catching tuna damaged the fins (7)

10: Eric, having set off, repeats something memorized (7)

12: Watch Obadiah attend to customers (7)

13: Knife to skin head and trim pelt (7)

14: Smithys workplace agreement not originally despicable, not totally! (5)

15: Heads appearing strange in distorting lens (7)

16: Watch, say (7)

18: Second thoughts following half-formed wishes are handfuls of straw (5)

19: Where some 16-downs fell, its beyond cover (3,4)

20: Doctor Igor, aim for a paper-folding process (7)

21: Actress Myrna taking call nearby (7)

22: Unchained Melody blankets one like marrow (7)

24: Something useful - like a matching collection? (5)

25: Add pantry to make dude! (9)
Down
2: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

3: Varies order in command? That's debatable (13)

4: No hot tamale in this dish (7)

5: Intrudes with a telephone faux pas? (5,2)

7: Whip up last cocktail slings! (9)

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

9: Holder of strange ritual of troll (5,8)

11: Secretly include railroad in family future (13)

14: Summaries of car option pamphlets (9)

17: Not all colleges say education is attempted (7)

18: Lady hugging extremely old lumberjack (7)

23: Crew member is one in operating room (3)




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