Crossword for Sat, 3/Apr/2010

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Across
2: Diet, sir! Clergy upset with fat constituents (13)

8: Flirting could end with marriage (9)

9: Skin gash exists (5)

10: Impatient dope confused designated hour (9,4)

12: Shocks friend overwhelmed by rude slap (7)

13: Sailing homewards popular by spring (7)

15: Fish or insect for captain (7)

17: Poorer and more squalid, heading from south to north (7)

20: A little sports car, let to harassed Southern belle (8,5)

22: Article missing from European's sources (5)

24: According to one published version, Dante ultimately escapes hell (9)

25: Uncouth chaps met Engel under stress. (4,9)
Down
1: Washy idea about refuges (9)

2: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

3: In the beginning, the first persons found Latin confusing. (7)

4: Medicine was our connection, we hear (7)

5: Indian chief of devout faith (5)

6: Period email feature (3)

7: Uneven ships cable made from hemp (5)

9: Shinny up and start to cut branch (5)

11: Exegesis of clue an idiot misunderstood (11)

14: 20-down 21-down to rush a grand relly (18)

16: For Summits, speak out of order (5)

17: Frank turned brown sitting on mountains (7)

18: Vanity items go wild (7)

19: Composer employed in hotel garage (5)

21: Sort of plain fur! (5)

23: Bloody bored inside (3)




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