Crossword for Mon, 12/Nov/2012

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Across
1: Central matter for physicists luncheon: rocks releasing hydrogen (7)

3: Hack gets brainwave to start with: ripen green veggie (7)

5: Strap, though short, has hanger's heart (5)

7: Little Digger pens sailboat drawing sheets (6,3)

10: Republican badly ires one on the way up (5)

11: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)

12: Do tell! A puzzle found in a cornfield? (5)

13: Flashlight lent, ran sporadically (7)

14: Tumultuous, so I tour around (7)

15: Girl hangs around artists' quarter for something to get tanked with? (7)

16: Hoyts odd shops abolish horse mints (7)

18: Mild oath irritates Degas (5)

19: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

20: Indian leader raising primitive bird (5)

21: Syrian mother with a part in a play (9)

22: Surpass former church leader, at first (5)

23: Spotted one delinquent leader after parole violation (7)

24: Communist air force is entertained - entertained splendidly (7)
Down
1: Like a good actor (e.g. Redford playing 13 across?) (7)

2: Deliver a sweetener to mix with your date? (5,4,4)

3: Shredded chad, he decrees, is one ingredient (7,6)

4: Continual wind up by the French shortstop (7)

6: Watering devices found in run-down orange sheds (6, 5)

7: Reformed drinker helps a water distributor (9,4)

8: Sound practical perception is a normal feeling (11)

9: Logical oil Polish chap applied (13)

15: Warrior and Republican in fantastic legend (7)

17: Wretched sea creature eating a little (7)




Solution (Reversed)
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