Crossword for Thu, 9/Feb/2012

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Across
1: Ball-horses are travellers! (5-8)

7: Skin gash exists (5)

9: Starshine somehow loses its shine (9)

11: Threatening mischievous lad with termination (9)

12: Flower, large one, set up outside (5)

13: Monarch met monarch in even open space for coin-operated machines (7,6)

16: Illness I catch performing exercises? (13)

20: Anger doctor internalizes is more serious (5)

22: Prisoner with severe cramp (9)

23: Surer rate confused Washington money maker (9)

24: Pitcher, lunatic, not married (5)

25: Changed musician not so offensively pious (13)
Down
2: New lease isn't required (9)

3: Reuniting gentry I broke up (7)

4: To live with a former partner is the final result (5)

5: One-time philosophical teaching turned him to classics (13)

6: Drunkard turns to observe drunkard (7)

7: Chip is describing rare bird call (5)

8: Gradually reduce European Community requisitions for playback devices (4,9)

10: Tramp and rake over green (5)

14: Closely observes public transport viewing problem (9)

15: Senior citizen losing 500 toddlers at sea (7)

17: Take on popular rascal (5)

18: Fit in cave after tea (7)

19: Devil gets a beating in Adelaide (5)

21: Moulding material to be included in upcoming miniseries (5)




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