Crossword for Thu, 24/Jun/2010

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Across
1: Lady hugging extremely old lumberjack (7)

5: 21-across A lot of fuss about a trifling matter, according to Shakespeare? (4,3,5,7)

7: Reed heard veggies may come in them (5)

8: Play faster in last 3/4 of piece with bass held backward (5,2)

11: Nothing changes in reproductive organs (7)

12: The old Queen was said to be a grizzly mother.(3-4)

13: Mobster at heart, presently I'll be carrying expensive pistol on hip (7)

15: Have misgivings (not half!) about making this gesture? (1-4)

16: Lasso a large animal, making first off for north (5)

17: Damage the object, Mr. Gore, having to do with marriage (7)

18: Lost pirates wander aimlessly (7)

20: Vagrant's foot caught in spinning machine (7)

21: Intrinsically, lilac queries development of wood varnish (7)

22: I hear mantas and surface (5)

23: Game cooked in ovens (7)

24: Hang South American author at crack of dawn (7)

Down
1: Stupidly sits in ice, snow with Packers fans? (13)

2: Tidy up and clean floor finally and decisively (4,3,3,3)

3: Spasm set in after mothers had a little something to chew (9)

4: Caught carrying oregano's essence in inhalers (5)

5: West abandoned mortals without a spot of confusion (9)

6: Worry about Democrat's chief staff group (5)

9: Foresees a three iron, just as Cassandra did. (7, 6)

10: Reformed drinker helps a water distributor (9,4)

14: A German novelist's almost horsy model (9)

15: Green coat for Italian composer and Spanish painter (9)

19: Star Trek role, beginning to end, is the pits (5)

20: Pointless drinks in disarray can lead to daggers. (5)





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