Crossword for Sun, 16/Feb/2014

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Across
1: Reportedly burned beet (5)

3: Start playing in pit, once (9)

7: Enormous lady may damage clothes (7)

9: Journey to get crude oil in capital (7)

10: Friendly over age of consent? (9)

11: Do as I say in short retreat (5)

12: Get by heroes? It's unlikely (7)

13: Amassing gold in confidence trick (7)

15: Boiled the seed furiously (7)

16: Two articles on craftsmanship, basically (2,5)

18: Blasts most of eucalypt stumps (5)

20: Cal Tech is center of Roman Catholic dogma (9)

21: Fine log doesnt begin garden art (7)

22: Note: rent is free (7)

23: They're hard to reconcile, Turkey Day displays featuring beef (9)

24: Unable to move, I rent sorely (5)
Down
1: Circle-drawer combines with 27 to make direction card (7)

2: Praiseworthy naval officer, English, found around boat's prow (9)

3: Lived in whirlpool I bathed in (9)

4: Logical oil Polish chap applied (13)

5: Religious symbols featured in ceramic on sale (5)

6: Transfixes the finger-tips (5)

8: Designed dashing ten-ton pick-up (3-5,5)

9: Draw the knot (3)

13: Set out samovars for featured skits (4,5)

14: Frozen awkwardly, i.e. a tin man (9)

17: Site of ASU school near Tuesday's storm (7)

18: On return, for example, put back costume (3-2)

19: Penniless meal is fantastic (5)

20: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)




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