Crossword for Tue, 5/Apr/2011

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Across
2: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)

4: Type of sketch taken from thin album (9)

7: Church council regulation sounds like a big gun (5)

8: No problem to deal with puritan on the radio (9)

11: A poor horse to run into a revised composition (7)

12: Revolutionary near the capital (7)

13: Short measure and light weight, say (7)

14: Was resident hidden in wild net? (7)

16: Old method of the Crown, gaining ownership of property for the last companion in the chair (7)

17: Others acquired skill to turn over a new leaf (7)

19: Booster involving risk brought to a halt early form of Voyager (7)

21: Rumors of corn among grass (7)

22: Souped-up car halted at Winchester church. (9)

23: Without a rabbi a long depression is hard to bear (5)

24: Bluff included in reckless dare in ivy league college (9)

25: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

Down
1: Speak aloud about tic in fruit (7)

2: Cook ran; ragout spilled; one might jump to conclusions here? (8,5)

3: Taking the future into consideration, Chaney acquires farmstead (4-5)

5: Hellish painter spoke piffle (5)

6: Hair fetishist's fastener? (4,3)

8: Exciting moment, actor as reviewer (11)

9: Bend in Pennsylvania court case related to revered founder (11)

10: 3-down said Sir, I have these! (5,4,4)

15: Put down cloak and strip (9)

16: Apprentice relinquishes heart to temptress (7)

18: Tinkers jump in children's world (3,4)

20: Reportedly, looked at sea serpent as exemplar (5)





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