Crossword for Thu, 25/Dec/2008

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Across
1: Black gets closing party (5)

4: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

6: Note vehicle in picture puzzle (5)

7: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

8: A manciple destroyed bell-tower (9)

10: Sounds like a wolf on the coast (3)

12: I'm to get older in picture (5)

14: Scale Ten after taxes (3)

15: Making out but not frosting (5)

Down
1: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)

2: Pathological bumbler holds a record (5)

3: Conductor of opera rising in encore (9)

4: Control escape (3)

5: Weird canal echo (5)

8: Taxi in a log house? (5)

9: Irish terrorists meet queen - one from Baghdad, perhaps (5)

11: However, you expect trouble at first (3)

13: Therefore, finish off this bit of work (3)





Solution (Reversed)
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