Crossword for Sat, 5/Jun/2010

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Across
1: To initiate into communist units, they carry the vital gas. (3, 5, 5)

8: Cloth arrived by air after 50 hours (9)

10: Crew member is one in operating room (3)

11: Pulls Americans (5)

12: Alan, Timothy, and a couple of Estonians follow me at breakfast, lunch, and dinner (9)

13: Knight-errant or young man in distress (7)

16: Damage surrounding most of old tooth (5)

17: More appealing to snub royalty? (5)

18: Shorten a spine with boron injection (7)

19: Evaluation pack of standard images (4,5)

20: Bouquet's sent up to network director? (5)

23: Top card? Excellent! (3)

24: Spider is natural at spinning (9)

25: Gradually reduce European Community requisitions for playback devices (4,9)
Down
1: Martin Short's next-to-last? Disgusting (5)

2: Weir contacting Hollywood star (5)

3: Still drunk, sings in a light, rhythmic way (5)

4: Opening event in cruise: Iran art display (7-6)

5: Far out, man, to rile someone who tells cats what to do (9)

6: Split, ran? (9)

7: Eighteen rounds initially served in golf-club bar (9)

9: Runner or dramatist in play (13)

13: A legendary archer's in little Spanish Idaho town (9)

14: Most recent gallery works may be a result of procrastination (4,5)

15: Cost very little when companion partied wildly outside (4,5)

20: Norse gentleman? Not exactly. (5)

21: Drinker taking pint from wife, perhaps (5)

22: For Summits, speak out of order (5)




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