Crossword for Tue, 23/Sep/2008

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Across
1: ABC mascot collapsed tunnels (9)

6: Observed no Knight (5)

9: Accepted rules for an inside con (5)

10: Play with exaggerated emotions made moral play (9)

11: Beware of these they show the funny side of the month! (4,2,5)

13: Starshine somehow loses its shine (9)

14: Dizzy Ben is a playwright (5)

15: Mature writer beyond racy, impertinent introductions (5)

16: Jump all over Kegler, say (9)

19: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)

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

22: Scrabble piece having D and a diacritical mark (5)

23: Jack's described part of a church (5)

24: Recipient of drink describing gown with energy (9)
Down
2: North African port with more flavour (7)

3: Privy to accessibility (11)

4: Enormous lady may damage clothes (7)

5: Sarah has friends from France on a Greek island (7)

6: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

7: Discipline the heartless and agonize endlessly (5)

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

9: Challenge the bench in retaliation. (13)

12: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)

16: Dad, look! A big ape! (7)

17: Odysseus' first requirement - to catch you like Polyphemus? (3-4)

18: Heads appearing strange in distorting lens (7)

19: Inexperienced reporter wearing South American diving gear (5)

21: Number One in facetiousness (3)




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