Crossword for Fri, 7/Sep/2012

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Across
1: A legislator spilling no tears (7)

4: Why give someone a ticking off? (4,3)

7: Inept casino confused the issue (4,2,5)

9: Rascal and wuss taking week off (3)

10: Content little rest for the painter (5)

12: Tries getting involved in real drama practice (9)

13: Like a high ranking diplomat's awful ambrosia salad (13)

17: He explored star (7,6)

18: Drink to the crashing of beetle car (9)

20: Comic embraces date at end of Fourth Dimension (5)

21: Bend in the middle and wind back (3)

22: Bobbed beneath in playful attempt to drown journalist. (6, 5)

23: Former color no longer available? (7)

24: I'd sing out after Tuesday's news (7)
Down
1: Win, or find an heir (9)

2: Taste test (5)

3: Put another way, perhaps, clarinet overwhelming harps, somehow (9)

4: Consider sound possibility (5)

5: Just grazed the pasty? (4-7)

6: Reject the upset outcast (5)

8: Become less formal, and recommend accepting trio of Hawkeyes (4,3)

11: Girl hatches subterfuge in prison tower (11)

14: Ran, taking a shot, and told the story (7)

15: In morning, use me and part of the Bible for diversion (9)

16: General's horse galloping to dangerous coasts (3,6)

18: A group performing with energy 'The Untouchables' e.g. (5)

19: Tie torn coats (7)

20: Will, in the past, cried out 'timber' (5)




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