Crossword for Wed, 13/Sep/2006

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Across
1: One concerned with glands uses cortisone in gold (15)

7: How might thirteen yearn to meditate? (4,5)

8: On a ship, a seat is cluttered (2,3)

9: Reportedly pull down more money at work (5)

10: Mousy girlfriend loses head and bellybutton (5)

12: Bright-sounding agenda touches on heavyweight legend (5,6)

14: Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)

15: Venomous enemy lurks in Caspians (3)

16: Girl hatches subterfuge in prison tower (11)

17: Message obscured by cinema illumination (5)

19: Send back stopwatch, as an example (5)

22: Against space race effect (5)

23: Whip me. Our lust is timid (9)

24: Airborne chap understands their plight, but is more concerned with digestion. (15)
Down
2: Material featured in 'Sudden Impact' (5)

3: Raced around a tree (5)

4: Cat, or what it does having lost its head (5)

5: Opposition leader has share in speech (7)

6: Dizzy Ben is a playwright (5)

7: Part of lower body is slow to make laws (9)

11: Cleopatra and her court's quirky pet saying (9)

13: Bite and flip over -- one way to win a wrestling match (3)

14: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

16: Sausages from a Greek island (7)

18: French love listening to a person like Othello (5)

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

20: Stormy channel discovered? (5)

21: Capone frequently gets high (5)




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