Crossword for Sun, 24/Aug/2008

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Across
1: Move to limp off without energy (5)

4: Halest hesitater is lost (9)

8: Errant son taking coin without permission (7)

9: Army lieutenant offers options for leaders in a distant state (5)

11: Gal who's no spring chicken hugs GI -- both go back for a snort (5)

12: Backward South American city captured by Bill (9)

13: Location of cheating, fiercer gender (4,9)

15: Aunt Peg really messed up the cheap seats (6,7)

20: In abundance, doing a bun dance (9)

21: Church council regulation sounds like a big gun (5)

22: Newsman Bradley accepts men, correct? (5)

23: Closest home receives attention (7)

24: Mother loiters and pretends to be ill (9)

25: Snoopy, no? Yes, in retrospect (5)
Down
2: Piano finale not determined (7)

3: Old physician in sheltered church (5)

4: Spout off, immersed in Homer, to quick-tempered person (7)

5: Dilapidated sofa contained initially some hot embers: something's burnt remains. (5, 2)

6: Moderately amphibian, for example, by the middle of the creek (2,1,6)

7: The last movement produces great passion (7)

8: Think at length about lost planet, comet (11)

10: Fashion term heartless: Feeling up Blossom (6-2-3)

14: Massive dinosaur hiding in Antigua? No, Donna! (9)

16: Climactic age opal tossed (7)

17: Caught sight of leaderless French church embracing a politician. (7)

18: Feet of people who get talked about (7)

19: Americans look for no revolution (7)

21: Links to some 7-down (5)




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