Crossword for Wed, 18/Aug/2010

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Across
3: Wizards covered in liquor and beer...it might be for charity (7, 4)

8: A wind, and not a holiday period (36)

9: Ordered us his Japanese entree (5)

10: Oriental talc dispenser deserves acclaim (5)

11: Drop in rent keeping me housed after last month (9)

13: Attempt test (3)

14: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)

15: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

19: Frost to cover the cake (3)

20: Partly indicates progress of undergraduate (2,1,6)

21: Entertain one of nine daughters of Mnemosyne (5)

22: Ensemble originally formed with ocarina, cello, theremin, euphonium, and tabla (5)

23: Curing bad meat in English river (9)

25: Enticements disrupt mental rules (11)
Down
1: Mend a split state (11)

2: Herb levels the French yard (7)

3: Its undergoing change regarding the performer (7)

4: Ran into a section of the time-table (3)

5: Sadly curtail urge for land cultivation (11)

6: Any number follow festival in the Orient (7)

7: One American tree growing wild that's very plain (7)

11: I deem turds a regrettable necessity (11)

12: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)

16: Talk about rent for a piece of property (7)

17: A superior helper (7)

18: Sheds last one carelessly (4-3)

19: Routine shows mutation of unborn (2,5)

24: One may be a very long time (3)




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