Crossword for Wed, 6/Dec/2006

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Across
1: Nasal quality essentially irritates Vera (5)

4: Lifeblood of dope (3)

6: Irish terrorists meet queen - one from Baghdad, perhaps (5)

8: Unknown little princess turning food with tongue (7)

9: Shelter Dracula's heart - he's representing blood-suckers (7)

10: This would make me a lord (7)

12: Hun paid out for French prince (7)

16: 23% of Scandinavians backing leaders (3)

18: Fool to join recital (3)

20: Backblock not all there (3)

21: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

22: Telekinesis pinches Albanian coin (3)

25: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

26: We would embrace tightly in marriage (7)

27: Hero-worshipper dancing reel and jig (7)

30: Adult party to entertain disheartened women (5-2)

33: Italian composer making endless noise, sir (7)

35: Belgian port getting rid of an idiot (5)

36: Looks like an eyesore, sounds like an eyesore (3)

37: A long way to go for a monomaniacal musician (5)
Down
1: Herb talked about the fourth dimension (5)

2: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

3: Pound Falcon end into football field (5)

4: Plots get Cuban revolutionary leader in a terrible mess (7)

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

6: Frost to cover the cake (3)

7: What's left when you burn the tree (3)

11: With diverse amendments? (7)

13: Mortified humans - fifty per cent felt great pity (7)

14: The lowest point in a dire section (5)

15: Subscribe once more to Nazarene weekly in part (5)

17: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

19: Draw the knot (3)

23: Twice take heart over raven writers so-called ground parrots (7)

24: Bird seen in springtime? Nonsense! (7)

28: A revolutionary New England state or an Indian state (5)

29: War ultimately helps attacks (5)

31: Nothing we have to pay (3)

32: Unappealing environment for a snooze (3)

34: I shall be sick! (3)




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