Crossword for Sat, 26/Dec/2009

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Across
1: Appears that fine car is elevated (5,2)

4: Want verse included in poetry translation (7)

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

10: Bobbed beneath in playful attempt to drown journalist. (6, 5)

11: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

12: I see marks on jumbled party favors (11)

14: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)

16: However, you expect trouble at first (3)

17: Intruders bury proles in pieces (11).

19: Residue has scattered (3)

21: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)

23: Rolling wave rolls into Rolling Stones song (3,3,4,3)

24: It's news broadcast for a seer (7)

25: Remodeled place is distinctive (7)

Down
1: New York decries eccentric period of medical training (9)

2: Genuine hesitation in church after transgression (7)

3: Survey mutants with missing shells for a possible cause of damage (9)

4: Peeled, making Pop embarrassed? (5)

5: Hazardous emanation from river used by a crime boss (5)

6: Give in and offer up (5)

8: Fixes price and French proof of sale (7)

9: Makes empty noises behind listener. (5)

13: Wrong, or sure one is wrong (9)

14: Dance originally held on top of wooden structures (7)

15: We tangled with this old kitchen cloth (4,5)

17: Radicchio tastes good in little bits. (5)

18: Big stink-up. Location is disgusting (7)

19: War or piecemeal missile (5)

20: Disturbance is the robbery (5)

22: Still drunk, sings in a light, rhythmic way (5)





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