Crossword for Wed, 16/Dec/2009

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Across
1: Loads of purpose in body parts (7)

4: Chalet I remodeled in conformance with professional standards (7)

8: Sarcastic critic, alas drunk, missing bit of comedy (9)

9: Begin suspecting like you're clever (3)

10: I, for one, adhere to edict (13)

12: Four tight ends holding a private conversation (4-1-4)

13: Drinker taking pint from wife, perhaps (5)

15: Gag about alien in Royal Childrens Hospital (5)

16: Show off Mark's Mazda Miata, for one (6,3)

19: Aunt Peg really messed up the cheap seats (6,7)

21: Find out scout (3)

23: Speaker with power (Irish), but no pith, develops a frog (9)

24: Mortified humans - fifty per cent felt great pity (7)

25: Found out in the beginning Gehrig pitched (7)
Down
1: Hornblower found a strange dog hidden by a hill (9)

2: Healer making solemn statement about upcoming writers (9)

3: Ryes, gin, rum in shooter? (7)

4: Discharge from Greek island (7)

5: Share between two some lethal venom (5)

6: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

7: Film relay got mixed up (5)

8: Pictures capturing Ranger's first excellent baseball player (9)

11: Tarheels buried by swarming Hornet club (9)

13: Orbiting object strayed SE a little (9)

14: Archaeopterix? Maybe I err badly (5,4)

16: Fell limply and quietly in a squalid area extremely exhausted (7)

17: Current about departure (2-5)

18: Utter poppycock! He was a Dutch painter (5)

20: Be of use to a head covering, we hear (5)

22: Root for mounting might (3)




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