Crossword for Thu, 6/Jul/2006

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Across
1: Old fool is strange in New York (5)

3: Training some smart little monkeys (9)

5: Confines for periods of time after onset of chickenpox (5)

6: A state, see - one in America - one with an American capital (9)

8: Odds of niece being born (3)

10: Model of former liberal (7)

12: Reading or writhing in river (3,6)

15: Road without a pole (4)

16: On the canvas from third strike (3)

17: Creature of habit goes in to pay upon receipt of drink? It's puzzling. (9)

19: Pauses awkwardly after error but steadies nerves (5,2)

21: Gained a hearing (3)

22: Except for last couple, Crosby croons passages (9)

23: Plastic shelf for meat (5)

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

25: Examine good-looking man? Yes! (5)
Down
1: Central matter for physicists luncheon: rocks releasing hydrogen (7)

2: The star of 'Ellen' has at folks with substandard morals (11)

3: Gibson working for shareholders' profit (5)

4: Without regard, seed and water plants (7)

7: Tending in Southern California to fight straw man? (9)

9: Characters producing exit with cross? (9)

11: Left with pal carrying new gold case (11)

13: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)

14: No one told sister (3)

16: Ancient history part is excessively trimmed (7)

18: Sexually suggestive, and complicated, we hear (7)

20: Lease bad tripod (5)




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