Crossword for Tue, 5/May/2009

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Across
1: Weapon company accommodating listener (7)

4: Those emptying the boat of water start to belittle those who are seasick? (7)

7: Something useful - like a matching collection? (5)

8: Attacking from behind going downhill (9)

10: Chewed-up gum in tater -- how toothsome (5-8)

12: At sea I reused what's left (7)

13: Write the letters of charm (5)

14: Religious types taking some time in the morning? (5)

17: Dozens of sprites seen on Tuesday and Wednesday initially (7)

20: See its violent broadcast? (10,3)

21: Rejecting help, soldiers taking numbers for identification (9)

23: Put two together? (Just skinned the fruit.) (5)

24: Dance to old home recording (3 4)

25: A tendency to bungle and cry, 'Near upset!' (7)
Down
1: Surprised fat southerner heading west to execute media mogul Turner (13)

2: Picks up job applicant documents (7)

3: Surprise running through bras to underpants (7)

4: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

5: Cold medicine's secret ingredients (7)

6: Look into deed, if I certify structure (7)

8: 22 across, shot and others rustling his cattle (8)

9: I'll go geld guys - suprisingly he laughs raucously. (7, 6)

11: Bart's also cast as Big Bird (9)

15: I fall over myself to get a bad reputation (3,4)

16: Needy person retreating to behind safe place (4-3)

18: Aliens work infrared thrust (7)

19: One who fought animal doctor ran after horse, ultimately (7)

22: How to eat the heart of marsupial (3)




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