Crossword for Wed, 17/Aug/2011

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Across
1: I see marks on jumbled party favors (11)

5: Choose to take the top off (3)

7: An animal which flies high but comes back for a place to wash (7)

8: Each retiring bachelor's promise finally cast in stone (7)

10: Runner or dramatist in play (13)

11: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

12: Drink one after another in a tantalizing way (9)

14: Tepid on Germany's military advocate (9)

17: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

19: Cheaper oil, gas distributed in Island chains (13)

20: Started frustrating us in real unwillingness to accept (7)

21: Outrageous trio of Italians bursting in on divorcee and me (7)

22: Freshen the atmosphere (3)

23: Steer TS into alternative routes (4,7)
Down
1: San Francisco athlete captures wild boar, an obvious choice (2-7)

2: This erratic 23-down twisted neck (7)

3: Former color no longer in production? (7)

4: Like a high ranking diplomat's awful ambrosia salad (13)

5: A methodical soldier? (7)

6: Lug worm finally being a symbol (5)

8: Monarch met monarch in even open space for coin-operated machines (7,6)

9: Put a new value on what secret agent is hiding (5)

13: Avoids seeds, pits, nuts (9)

14: Why give someone a ticking off? (4,3)

15: Shatters ice cubes (5)

16: Its undergoing change regarding the performer (7)

17: An inhabitant of Eastern Europe makes love nearer the middle (7)

18: Vagrant going over a little river to a foreign country (5)




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