Crossword for Sat, 24/Sep/2011

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Across
1: Snuggled in armchair, cute Bob (7)

5: Sneaking a look at someone making a little noise (7)

8: Currently well-supplied? (5)

9: Small capturing big and strong (9)

11: Something lacking in brief season (9)

12: A Gore follows a Ryan (5)

13: Yes. No. Maybe. Getting personal (5)

14: Do as I say in short retreat (5)

15: Limp elbows display drive (5)

17: Algerian city has grand musical instrument (5)

20: Gather together for a church service. (5)

21: Sailors used to rely on this condensation collected in column at edge of deck (5,4)

22: Discourage trendy princess's affectation (9)

23: Try abbreviation for South America, we hear (5)

24: Nits are possibly more unpleasant (7)

25: Cora acts indecisively (7)

Down
2: Plead with a representative to use a new type of role (7)

3: Grave study: code-breaking? (13)

4: Tutus can serve to conceal Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael, say (7)

5: Herb levels the French yard (7)

6: Cold medicine's secret ingredients (7)

7: I'll go geld guys - suprisingly he laughs raucously. (7, 6)

8: Liquidation of one country led by pair of fools (13)

10: I, for one, adhere to edict (13)

16: Softly, French author questions socially correct behavior (2,3,2)

17: Al Fresco is to do our cooking (7)

18: Green-light southern Indian chief (2-5)

19: A rag in question (2,5)





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