Crossword for Wed, 24/Jan/2007

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Across
3: Okay shot ripped tears in butt (6-5)

5: Arenas almost filling with the hooter (5)

10: 'Ransom'? Lame. Run 'Rocky I', 'II', 'III', etc. (5,8)

12: New York island is hellish without boundaries (5)

13: Swine met end, tied and dyed (9)

14: Reveals fatness I'm developing (9)

17: Making out but not frosting (5)

19: Repeated note to help player? (6-7)

21: Measure of heat in the empty room (5)

23: Support sign for subordinates (11)
Down
1: Risk solemn query about primates (8,7)

2: Male meandering in back of sedan burned 'Sugar' (7)

3: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)

4: Peace and quiet beforehand... I enjoy it (a high point for a trickster?) (15)

6: Hovel revamp ending depression (5)

7: Fiction position (3)

8: Essays about old dramatic works (9)

9: Something useful - like a matching collection? (5)

11: Instrument making snout feel odd (4,5)

15: Low point for consumerist, reportedly (5)

16: Fur seal frolicking around entrance to bay (5)

18: Foolish old African dictator concerned with the ear (7)

20: Clothilda is carrying a parcel (3)

22: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)




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