Crossword for Thu, 4/Sep/2008

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Across
2: Disbelieving customer found in fetid cell in turmoil. (7,6)

7: End is close, doctor surreptitiously revealed (9)

8: As one lacking a vice (5)

10: Carry on after New York's flipped into unconsciousness (7)

11: Schoolchildren made to come back on Saturday make mistakes (4-3)

12: Raise one in Oz, to the Olympic games (5)

13: Alien live around Glacial Ridge? (5)

14: Finagle identity for stiff (5)

15: Beat outright a small French romantic (5)

16: Sailing homewards popular by spring (7)

18: Mother's herb rubdown (7)

20: Dance with Oliver (5)

21: Nominee is cold and indifferent initially... see? (9)

22: Ned Lunig, thrown inside, openly seen to be crapulous (13)

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

2: Dizzy Ben is a playwright (5)

3: Taking ones cue from subsequent courtship (9,4)

4: Took exception to insult and discharged editor (9)

5: Many sound prospects for prospectors (5)

6: Former husbands surrounding prettier performers (9)

8: Mild guess: I die reassembling a nasty weapon (6,7)

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

12: Food (trace of nourishment) wrapped in skin in Scottish city (9)

13: I am a blond, going to pot around the midsection (9)

17: Cut up after having gambled, with death perhaps? (5)

19: A carriage returned in pieces (5)





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