Crossword for Sun, 15/Oct/2006

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Across
1: Twisted like a Melbourne suburb (5)

3: In favor of echoing game call (3)

5: Duck's primary seducer! (5)

8: Overlook truck license expiration, at first (7)

9: Mink, for one, may fly when theres trouble (3)

10: Hard-wearing but onerous tax (5-4)

11: Piece of tile in a solid floor (7)

12: Text, Inc., bankrupted, is gone (7)

14: Unfinished riding gear for Indian town (7)

17: Brutal one destroyed clutches with hooked claws (7)

18: Motorist to welcome hailing? (3-6)

21: Choose to take the top off (3)

22: What's so crazy about belonging to a secret society? (7)

23: Confederates sample party food while talking (5)

24: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

25: Oddly, derros wont die in water! (5)
Down
1: Smithys workplace agreement not originally despicable, not totally! (5)

2: Loud noise covers a little line by Bette Davis (4,1,4)

3: Hot, like one expressing disapproval? (5)

4: Strike true form with cloud nine (7)

5: Duck down as filler for your caps... (5)

6: Indict a sprinkling of reporters? (7)

7: Came back on a diet anew and wasted away (9)

11: A strike about fair regulating (9)

13: If forced, see idle TV broadcast (9)

15: Mistakenly laid mop in sheepskin (7)

16: Roy concerned with the ear being mechanical (7)

18: Skin gash exists (5)

19: Butts in front of people, breaking drinks (5)

20: English philosopher in rasher lot? (5)




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