Crossword for Tue, 18/Aug/2009

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Across
1: Holds records for drinking. (7)

4: Strange nectars induce dreamlike states. (7)

7: In Germany, the monster returned from the east. (5)

8: Gets high by direct routes? (9)

10: Valuable discovery certain in luxury travel (8,5)

12: No, I save up for escape (7)

13: Water ceremony or fire in a crisis (7)

15: Those with regrets reining in destroyers (7)

16: This time doctors learn about the kidneys (7)

17: Finish suddenly, like an oboe? (1, 4, 2, 3, 3)

19: Focus of heroic move inside (9)

21: Some unpretentious language! (5)

23: They occupy the space of many workers (7)

24: Marine left anchor partially to 25-down man (7)
Down
1: Canadian water ordered for regal tea-break (5,4,4)

2: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

3: Lily Tomlin character inside her nest in Ecuador (9)

4: Dance with Oliver (5)

5: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

6: Privy to accessibility (11)

8: Docks impair one North America subdivision at first (7)

9: Beat it and ran, for example, with Girl Scout ingredients (9,4)

11: Arranged date in Cairo means extermination (11)

13: Straw hat worn by soprano with big mouth (7)

14: Ship's official drinking tea with buyer (9)

18: Dislikes laughter set-up (5)

20: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)

22: What's left when you burn the tree (3)




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