Crossword for Sun, 10/Sep/2006

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Across
1: Visual quirk set in stone. (7)

3: Surprisingly, neither was in place. (7)

6: How a diver might marry (4,3,6)

8: Reed heard veggies may come in them (5)

9: Persistently ask for one silly prom song (9)

12: Beats Greek bread, Mr. Buchanan! (7)

14: Top teams try VISA out (7)

15: Arabs lost sneaky bird (9)

16: Pygmy antelope or Nile wader without a tail (5)

17: Ball-horses are travellers! (5-8)

20: Where nurses work progressively (7)

21: Spotted by a large number - church interior (7)
Down
1: On the canvas from third strike (3)

2: Skin gash exists (5)

3: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

4: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)

5: She's providing us with a minder (9)

7: Complaining ruler gets expression of disgust (7)

9: Intruders bury proles in pieces (11).

10: Shabby and insolent, having no trace of breeding (5)

11: State control for Romanians (3,6)

12: Turn four in vessel (5)

13: Tiresome platitude from dim bore (7)

16: Get the better of when not at the party (5)

18: Leaders of Orioles and Rangers stick in the dugout? (3)

19: Find out scout (3)




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