Crossword for Sun, 30/Mar/2008

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Across
1: Travel - pioneering art form (13)

8: Sounds like a bright child (3).

9: Greenest state with the least elevation (9)

10: Mix tequila? Be fair! (9)

11: At first, actors I directed did poorly (5)

12: Playwright rethinking copyright wrangle (4,7)

14: See, you are a cad. (3)

15: Neither partner finds way out of country (3)

16: Enticements disrupt mental rules (11)

19: Grill when involved in corruption (5)

21: Giant reptiles make a racket and love southern gold, but principally really stink! (9)

22: In favour of change reduce mode of action (9)

23: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

24: Free for all by lack of padlocked freight compartments (2,5,6)
Down
1: Private entrance in back behind Post Office (7)

2: Ill-conceived encore run for Edward VIII, say (9)

3: Bigoted, ideological extremes in preamble to bill are misguided (9)

4: Certain Pole's one poem (5)

5: Not being particular, Xena and I moved to Connecticut (7)

6: Original North American time precedes 'America Latina' (5)

7: Drive an unusual visitor (7)

9: Doll part, that is (5)

13: Measuring exotic flowers (9)

14: Winner against what French first resisted otherwise (9)

15: Grandma takes Mr. Thalberg to the 'State of Oblivion' (7)

16: China to convert to a biblical place. (7)

17: Body English for a billiards shot (5)

18: Dangle South American flags halfway (7)

20: Poplar is like a writer (5)

21: Drive carefully and live (5)




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