Crossword for Wed, 19/Mar/2008

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Across
1: Shakespeare's maiden begging for kissing (9)

5: Thumb Drum? (3)

8: Tours river, merging initial impressions with remembered legends (5)

9: Central Slovak airport damaged 16-down (9)

10: I see marks on jumbled party favors (11)

11: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

12: Flora collected metal she owns (9)

14: About....about right? Wrong! (3)

15: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

17: Lined salt shaker made ready for use (9)

19: Therefore, finish off this bit of work (3)

20: Arranged date in Cairo means extermination (11)

21: Ill, quite sour, and kind of blue (9)

22: The percolator, repulsively, contains a pancake (5)

23: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

24: The state of a fresh garment (3,6)
Down
2: British actor in Rocky VII role (7)

3: City flat is swamped by sweets, almost (9)

4: Mild guess: I die reassembling a nasty weapon (6,7)

5: Opera Asians (5)

6: Bill is taken in by drug smuggler being inconstant (7)

7: Prejudice runs wild in a legal system (13)

8: Teen unclothes poorly dressed diners (13)

9: End of Oslo peace process making things less clear (13)

13: Woman losing head after another fall (9)

16: Mild oath from Yogi about work (7)

18: Tories put out after Liberal leader hangs around (7)

20: Flare for clean-up time (5)




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