Crossword for Sun, 12/Feb/2017

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Across
1: Advice on clues to be anagrammed (7)

4: Sap crossing street to see fair play (7)

7: Boob implant cups: sad hoax in line with 15-down (8,3)

9: Call for help oddly stops (3)

10: Actress Tori, lacking direction, is getting the characters out of order(11)

11: Practise using public transport (5)

13: Photographers arrived with noodles (9)

15: Telltale churning up dirt on CIA (9)

17: Scrooge in film is erratic (5)

18: 7-down relic? (6,5)

20: Five kills one. (3)

22: 15-acrosss toilet pot? Rubbish! (5,6)

23: It's not the editor in chief that looked threatening (7)

24: Early missionary or saint in a European setting (7)
Down
1: A fellow's legs may be protected by these (5)

2: King of the sun and new moon (7)

3: Many sound prospects for prospectors (5)

5: Finally sews more lavish embroidery (7)

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

7: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)

8: Driver who's disappeared in conflict (7)

11: Hit rump exuberantly in victory (7)

12: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

14: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)

16: Return to summer (7)

17: Eminent performer in some art form (7)

19: Girl leaving in the morning from America (5)

20: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

21: Predatory bird decapitated dog (5)

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




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