Crossword for Tue, 21/Feb/2012

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Across
1: Slender flame's emanation (5)

3: The stagecoach industry (9)

8: 28 Invitation for man to get a cent on November 5? (5,3,3,3)

10: Startled, grabs sailor (3)

11: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)

12: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)

13: Bird's cautious after officer captures donkey (9)

14: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

15: Famous gardens said to move one to speak. (3)

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

18: Top card? Excellent! (3)

19: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

22: Nothing we have to pay (3)

23: Be prepared with amnesties for truancy (11)

24: Prior page centered poorly (9)

25: Helga excels coming back with a two under par (5)
Down
1: Outcasts return will elicit disgust (5)

2: Birth of Wilder sibling (7)

3: Oddly, derros wont die in water! (5)

4: Earthenware bowl eventually replacing fragment of prehistoric drawing (7)

5: Canadian water ordered for regal tea-break (5,4,4)

6: Observed, like hot tea? (7)

7: Archaeopterix? Maybe I err badly (5,4)

9: Leo, wealthy, wig awry, looking awfully old! (6,4,3)

13: A muskmelon or cola nut pa sliced (9)

15: Lament the first person heard in good judgment (4,3)

16: Again send out note describing Susie misbehaving (7)

17: Amassing gold in confidence trick (7)

20: German painter in a southern state (5)

21: Monsieur is immersed in unspecified French river (5)




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