Crossword for Tue, 24/May/2011

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Across
1: Clown with a tail. (3)

3: Delete Times editorial first (5)

6: Going after the final piece of puzzle for a very long time (3)

7: 20-across Love to be a boy on a farm; its a means of reconciliation (5,6)

8: Compile an anagram: cop in male form (9)

11: Puzzle over the end of soccer coach (5)

12: Implement box for young cat (3)

13: Plays without a wee measure of drinks (5)

14: Escalating naked conflict (3)

Down
1: Youngster giving wounded first aid (5)

2: Trap with hands? (3)

3: Characters producing exit with cross? (9)

4: Taxi omitted going around gnome (5)

5: Sound of river crossing (3)

9: I got by in Los Angeles or a North African state (5)

10: Keep back a missing ingredient for gunpowder (5)

11: Clear initial rubbish in drain (3)

12: Famous gardens said to move one to speak. (3)





Solution (Reversed)
E
S
A
R
E
G
A
W
X
X
X
I
H
E
V
I
L
O
N
O
E
O
R
L
N
A
M
E
C
I
L
O
P
I
I
I
T
I
K
S
U
B
E
R
E
E
T
Y
I
R
A
W
S
M
A
R
D