Crossword for Mon, 25/Dec/2006

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Across
2: Daughter staring after gym teacher (7)

5: Begin suspecting like you're clever (3)

7: Only one mortgage reported (5)

8: Can lot be plastered around the jug at night? (9)

9: Put out a journal in a foreign language (7)

11: Dislikes laughter set-up (5)

13: Mistakenly reboot C: in spooky month (7)

16: On the way with tureen, tripping over a section of orange (2,5)

18: Small area of land for unchanging Chinese (5)

19: Protest if youth shows warrant (7)

21: In love with copper? Gone to give the needle? (9)

22: Mature writer beyond racy, impertinent introductions (5)

23: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)

24: Denial referred to you and me and Al (7)
Down
1: Learn and teach about grief (9)

2: Tine expert no good (5)

3: Considers playing his top card for the apartment above Ivana's. (6, 4, 5)

4: Scales the responses to attack? (15)

5: Perhaps the sound of the beach is really rock? (9)

6: Screams Yes! around line 50 (5)

10: Swamp creature resting tail on a rocky outcrop (5)

12: California business providing front for fraudulent racket (9)

14: Ironically to the point (5)

15: Optomist rashly to count votes before a form of a negative comes up (9)

17: Early computer actor Michael returned (5)

20: Renowned architect leaving island for long jog (5)




Solution (Reversed)
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