Crossword for Fri, 9/Jan/2009

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Across
1: Whip me. Our lust is timid (9)

5: Tie torn coats (7)

8: Working on mental topic? (13)

10: Valuable discovery certain in luxury travel (8,5)

11: Sift around half-killed transporter (3-4)

13: Empty country with iron or wood (7)

15: Turn to promotion on clothing (7)

16: Art deserving a pledge? (7)

17: Cook ran; ragout spilled; one might jump to conclusions here? (8,5)

22: Tint bark clogs to provide foot support (8,5)

23: Cancel Times and Enquirer initially (5)

24: Couple gain control of schooner, for example (3-6)
Down
1: Friars pleats (5)

2: German painter in a southern state (5)

3: Slippery deck spots are on either side (9)

4: Abstract art is just one step.(5)

5: Muhammad's first of the desirable ones (1-4)

6: Ten Canoes galled Chinese (9)

7: Road reaches objectives. (7)

9: Solitary one finally putting me back in service (7)

12: A country, one said, in trouble (9)

13: Increase in force may finish in soccer riot (9)

14: Discompose each half of turbines (7)

15: Oblique demand for a new church (7)

18: Egad, a retracting saw (5)

19: Ensemble originally formed with ocarina, cello, theremin, euphonium, and tabla (5)

20: First to utterly defeat fish. (5)

21: Take tricks with this wit? (5)




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