Crossword for Wed, 19/Aug/2009

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Across
1: Piece of pottery containing drink to make beast tender (9)

5: Flower festival is pointless (5)

7: Dance to old home recording (3 4)

9: In the morning attract a large oil bottle (7)

11: 'An old Egyptian,' Mia said (7)

12: How to secure man-haters at last (5)

13: Principle unaffected by revolution (5)

14: Something to knock down in the alley for writer at home? Back at home? (7)

15: It's exciting, for example, holding a tongue (7)

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

18: Nearly everyone can work on the course without help (5)

19: Tories put out after Liberal leader hangs around (7)

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

21: Omission in error is no lie (7)

23: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

24: Young horses mistakenly resign early without hesitation (9)

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

2: Frost to cover the cake (3)

3: Take out former pamphlet? (7)

4: Novel deviance in the movie? (5,2,6)

5: Mostly yearning for headache remedy (7)

6: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

8: Aunt Peg really messed up the cheap seats (6,7)

10: Drink to them, not with them. (6,7)

11: Sent one page rewritten in military lingo (11)

16: Something cold in Candice Bergen's makeup (7)

17: Remodeled place is distinctive (7)

22: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)





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