Crossword for Wed, 20/Jun/2007

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Across
3: Mary-Jane crochets her Pop a jumper (11)

9: True side (5)

11: Grass present round container (7)

12: The joint action of substances is messy; ring doctor! (9)

13: Take on popular rascal (5)

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

16: Surprised fat southerner heading west to execute media mogul Turner (13)

19: Goes bad and accepts never-ending abuses of the system (5)

20: Gainers demonstrated by swimming baritones (9)

23: I have followed a coach, shouting insults (7)

24: Tender translator of runes (5)

25: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)
Down
1: Wags components of 22-across (5)

2: Mostly, you drink with mystic (5; var.)

4: Time has corroded faithlessness (7)

5: Cuts back small curls (7)

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

7: Knowing in advance about 101 here (9)

8: Put another way, perhaps, clarinet overwhelming harps, somehow (9)

10: 3-down said Sir, I have these! (5,4,4)

14: Makes teenagers unruly (9)

15: Upset with fashionable kind of coat I wore (down) (9)

17: Ridiculously bid more for chestnut (7)

18: Go over the same ground? (7)

21: When first missing, feel sorry for wader (5)

22: Navigate by terse directions (5)




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