Crossword for Wed, 21/Oct/2009

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Across
1: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

6: See, you are a cad. (3)

8: Run into separate barricade (7)

9: Blasts most of eucalypt stumps (5)

11: Finish suddenly, like an oboe? (1, 4, 2, 3, 3)

12: Drug matures thick soups (7)

13: Russian leader unorthodox in style (7)

15: Awful riddle about many a swindler. (7)

16: Clears up blemishes of dictators? (7)

17: Mild guess: I die reassembling a nasty weapon (6,7)

21: Starts to actually believe you survived snake pit (5)

22: Those with regrets reining in destroyers (7)

23: Period email feature (3)

24: Black arts and demons concerned with Homer's issue? (4,7)
Down
1: Light touch of resplendence covers humble beginnings (5)

2: Censured someone who's gentle as a Kennedy (9)

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

4: Nixon's engaging Guevara in scraps (7)

5: Bar one not keeping heart of bargain (5)

6: Tossed sixth of cookies in class (5)

7: Some doctors oust head of Johnson and Johnson? (9)

10: One-time philosophical teaching turned him to classics (13)

12: Deep dirge played for one of unimpeachable heritage (9)

14: Fears ultimately uncentered and pointless (9)

16: Wants Lucy's husband to retire shortly (7)

18: Endless taping-over is unsuitable (5)

19: Mister T ignored Scrooge (5)

20: Amoebas inside the sink! (5)




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