Crossword for Fri, 30/Mar/2007

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Across
1: Confederates sample party food while talking (5)

4: Elderly sundials. (3, 6)

9: Bomb compartment - note damaged weapon (7)

10: Waves like a toff (5)

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

12: Runner or dramatist in play (13)

14: Check out tailless fish swallowing speck of dust with hand-held device (6,7)

17: Defusing timer incorrectly can lead to this! (13)

21: Take in to feed silver winner (5)

22: An Italian port - New Orleans (7)

23: Supposed hot desire gnawed (9)

24: First to utterly defeat fish. (5)
Down
1: Catch up before old crooner talking blather (7)

2: Chump getting past in chasm (5)

3: Norse gentleman? Not exactly. (5)

4: Frequently decimal? (5)

5: Fatal crime may lead to damnation (6,3)

6: Shell compensate for loss in certain risky starts (7)

7: Ultimately, dconstruire, to the French intellectual, is simple (9)

8: More stable, or slide around (7)

12: Poor Marist to freeze in cessation of hostilities (9)

13: Criticize changes heard in piano pieces (9)

14: Again design rose float (7)

15: Force of nature, like Chubby Checker (7)

16: Palestinian group participating in way out feat (7)

18: Face-off stopped and relieved the pressure (5)

19: Oriental talc dispenser deserves acclaim (5)

20: Trunk and tangled roots (5)




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