Crossword for Thu, 18/Feb/2010

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Across
1: New Testament stories about gifts (7)

3: Criminal type swapped medium for large shellfish (7)

7: Corpse apt to turn up in science fiction (5)

9: Put down cloak and strip (9)

10: Rag lying about note? Absolutely (5-4)

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

12: Prejudice runs wild in a legal system (13)

14: Secretly include railroad in family future (13)

17: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

18: Overly flattering, interminably grown-up and a conservative (9)

21: Maintenance with Jones family perhaps (7,2)

22: Casts off shacks (5)

23: Go over the same ground? (7)

24: This would make me a lord (7)
Down
1: A sample makes sense (5)

2: Lion's leader publicizes dens (5)

3: Snagged woman with an impeccable reference (7)

4: Brando rinsing out identification tools (8,5)

5: Extremely tense many times about a private conversation (4-1-4)

6: Over 24 hours, Parisian street may feel remorse (3,3,3)

8: State that may be so ideal for sap (5,8)

9: Miserable raise follows poor grade (5)

12: Naughty pedestrian sounds Scotch? (9)

13: About to get together in call to mind (9)

15: Douglas, initially tough, is knocked out (7)

16: Create an impression on an envelope? (5)

19: Give in and offer up (5)

20: A revolutionary New England state or an Indian state (5)




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