Crossword for Sat, 18/Oct/2008

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Across
1: Precipitate cheer for Mick Jagger (9)

5: Casts off shacks (5)

8: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)

10: Mere chance of depression interrupting peace (11)

11: See, you are a cad. (3)

12: Reading or writhing in river (3,6)

14: Impostor made flanking attack (5)

16: Give in and offer up (5)

17: We hear former wife thrilled Richard, an odd person (9)

19: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)

20: Put hot cocoa out for someone glued to the TV (5,6)

22: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)

23: Game for drunkard (5)

24: Instrument for beater caught with liquor (5,4)
Down
1: It's designed to hold hot air, say, surrounding edges of propeller (4,5)

2: Intruders bury proles in pieces (11).

3: Posed in glossy fabric (5)

4: Solitary one finally putting me back in service (7)

5: Observed, yet seen so poorly (3,4,2)

6: In fear of wheat head (3)

7: Navigate by terse directions (5)

9: Pervert stripped in mineral water (5)

11: Orchestra I'm reorganizing for certain conductor (11)

13: Rally has promotion I created primarily in a new way (9)

15: Comic's ROM crashed! Small world, isn't it? (9)

17: Queen is gaga for horses (7)

18: Almost all choose fresh salmon (5)

19: Penniless meal is fantastic (5)

21: Clean air makes Australia singular (5)

22: Thumb Drum? (3)




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