Crossword for Sun, 24/Mar/2013

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Across
1: Sikh leader grovels or doodles! (7)

5: Top of sports car the French painted on time is deep red (7)

7: Difficult book about Baltic currency (11)

8: Five kills one. (3)

9: Tide, for example, has to stop fellow (9)

10: First bud to emerge in flower. (5)

11: Scold head of state entertained by Ted Turner? That's most astute! (9)

13: Got excited by unusual tulip (3,2)

14: Head of the Venetians bagging dead duck (5)

16: Ceremonial lamb turned about a revolving spit (9)

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

19: Health resort to stop working excess fat (5 4)

21: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)

22: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

24: May start to get sick? Catch postal container (7)

25: Tits are flying birds (7)
Down
1: Take Chair in university (3)

2: List of members includes old chick's Dad (7)

3: Western retreat satisfactory, accepted by canoeists and surfers? (3,8)

4: Witnessed vocal tantrum (5)

5: Pictures capturing Ranger's first excellent baseball player (9)

6: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

8: Capone frequently gets high (5)

9: I deem turds a regrettable necessity (11)

10: Hostile warning: one man has captured the queen (11)

12: Measure ordering carving in relief (9)

15: Ripped off a group of hard-up Edwardians (5)

17: I'm great novel detective (7)

20: Flower festival is pointless (5)

23: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)




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