Crossword for Mon, 3/Jul/2006

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Across
1: Fabled creature: She controls men's fooling around (4,4,7)

5: After harvest fruit is seen again (9)

8: Navigate by terse directions (5)

9: Dark mysterious thing (5)

10: Looking at a little monkey in glee (5)

12: First get a French weapon. (3)

13: Number One in facetiousness (3)

14: Shelter Dracula's heart - he's representing blood-suckers (7)

15: Judges playing conkers? (7)

16: Cull out from top ten (3)

17: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)

19: Sister leaves, seeing torment of supernatural servant (5)

20: Bouquet's sent up to network director? (5)

21: An Indian princess fled east repeatedly (5)

23: Form of address valued for the auditor taken unawares (9)

24: Dog of old opium-eater in novel (9,6)

Down
1: British poet associated with gravity is having a merry time (7)

2: French song composed by German boy in study (7)

3: On second thoughts, rising fish glitter (7)

4: Draw the knot (3)

6: Sent one page rewritten in military lingo (11)

7: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

8: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

11: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)

15: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

16: Watch, say (7)

17: With diverse amendments? (7)

18: At sea I reused what's left (7)

20: Call for help oddly stops (3)

22: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)





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