Crossword for Tue, 6/Feb/2007

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Across
5: Art deserving a pledge? (7)

8: Questionable realtor robs preacher (4,7)

9: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

11: A representative may be a scamp (3)

12: Mild expletive for a sea-faring people? (9)

13: One watching over entrance returns identifying label (7)

14: Worthless even when recycled (3)

15: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)

17: What models do when embraced by former Democrat leader - all is revealed (7)

19: Woman losing head after another fall (9)

21: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

22: Implement box for young cat (3)

23: Upset top duo; I went and confessed (5,2,2,2)

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

Down
1: Guess what the benighted marksman did? (4,2,3,4)

2: Not blunt instrument - it has point on front (5)

3: To hear's possible in this (7)

4: Path of planet - or particle (5)

5: Terrier shows how to stray (3)

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

7: Came back on a diet anew and wasted away (9)

10: Teen unclothes poorly dressed diners (13)

13: Giant fish, note, approaches Italian city (not capital) (9)

16: Stone or card (7)

18: Fish for captain (7)

20: Bush, senior (5)

21: Spanish wine from a city in Brazil getting German approval (5)

24: And not in town, ordinarily (3)





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