Crossword for Tue, 11/Aug/2009

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Across
2: Irregular bouts of activity suit beach scrubbers (4,3,6)

7: About....about right? Wrong! (3)

8: Mixed greens and teals, so dad's remodeled (6,5)

9: Draw the knot (3)

10: Mary-Jane crochets her Pop a jumper (11)

12: Gantry in Hilton Hotel, Mermaid Beach (5)

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

15: Perhaps the sound of the beach is really rock? (9)

19: Exhausted writer found in street (5)

20: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)

21: In favor of echoing game call (3)

22: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

23: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

24: Get the wrong idea, damn it, distressed about breaks (13)
Down
1: We hear you cannot pay, so you can't smell. (9)

2: Fashion term heartless: Feeling up Blossom (6-2-3)

3: Refuse graduate upgraded mark (7)

4: Sir Reed shot an American novelist (7)

5: The ultimate objective is not to achieve the goal. (2, 5, 1, 3)

6: Mystic eats piece of donut in ritual meal (5)

8: Going back in where GI trapped predator (5)

11: Fancied poem composed in comfort (5,2,4)

14: North wounded in action and removed from power (9)

16: Dont alter it, child; its a hat! (7)

17: Undercover agents concealing surplus (7)

18: French heart pines for early courses (7)

19: Returning sailors receive a penny for singular catch (5)

20: The pole will carry the principal mainsail (5)




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