Crossword for Wed, 4/Feb/2009

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Across
1: Stop fooling around with her at tea break (4,1,8)

8: Asian river ordeal; it's upset manufacturer (13)

9: In favor of echoing game call (3)

11: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)

12: Supplementing oriental ruler (5)

14: Cost of teaching cooking to Inuit (7)

15: Swarms all over fashionable gatherings (7)

18: Opera Asians (5)

19: Barque, for one, is a trio-tutor (5-6)

21: Wander around inside territory (3)

23: My gal talking to Italian at the table? (5,8)

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

Down
1: One who takes after beggarman (5)

2: Valuable coat of arms positioned (5)

3: Again dices pith of herb as stuffing for baguettes (7)

4: In contact with a Georgia institution (7)

5: Fur from hormone treatment I took - it's mortifying (4,5)

6: Conclude a recitation off-key (11)

7: Drunk feeding passes to receivers (5,4)

10: Incomplete raw data lies in largely unexplored regions (4,7)

12: Otis and Vince mad for being thrown out repeatedly (9)

13: Leave sorcerer to bible-basher (9)

16: Actor's second, and putting on a mad snit (5-2)

17: Like a good actor (e.g. Redford playing 13 across?) (7)

20: One who gets up part of stairway (5)

22: Finagle identity for stiff (5)





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