Crossword for Wed, 26/Mar/2008

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Across
1: Larvae can appear to contain cure-all (7)

4: Greek city - in the Adriatic or in Thessaly (7)

7: Wander around inside territory (3)

8: Orchestra I'm reorganizing for certain conductor (11)

11: I love chewing up Mediterranean fruit (5)

12: Praised muck in supplement (7)

13: Infringement due to instrument on tabletop precedes charge (9)

14: Poles suffer internally - they're hard (5)

16: Crippled boy takes me in (5)

17: Race cars Dr. Silver steers without trace of effort (9)

18: On the way back, I had to keep calm and concentrate (7)

20: Goes bad and accepts never-ending abuses of the system (5)

21: Exchange concealed proprietary knowledge (5,6)

22: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

24: Diet I'm crazy about will eventually set boundaries (7)

25: Serious article penned by Hemingway (7)

Down
1: Five kills one. (3)

2: Heart-shaped ribbed cloth I order (9)

3: Minor change in the White House? (6-3-4)

4: Opening event in cruise: Iran art display (7-6)

5: Inert form of saltpeter (5)

6: Owned 500 (about right) broken skis in storage locations (4,5)

9: Ned Lunig, thrown inside, openly seen to be crapulous (13)

10: Runner or dramatist in play (13)

13: Sanctioned half of values I saw (9)

15: Get rid of Tom for trip to North Pole (3,6)

19: Diminutive fellow had a big job in the final. (5)

23: Capture ten heading north (3)





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