Crossword for Fri, 25/Dec/2009

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Across
2: Shifting financial fortunes cause industry revolution (8,5)

8: Marijuana caught in slight stage illumination (9)

10: Take off from small runway (5)

11: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

12: Prophetic books about English people in Asia (7)

13: The Girl Guides show how to start a fire (7)

15: Fly from Arab's condemnation (7)

17: Box put on line for bird (7)

18: Heading from the Dakotas to the Little Big Horn, general is waylaid by a person who can look into the future, and backs out (7)

20: Dorothy's aunt incensed sheikdom (7)

22: Former name for joint audition (3)

23: Plant in the edges of the first row (5)

24: Large glasses used on ships (9)

25: Dry vegetarian, about to like this puzzle, perhaps? (6, 7)
Down
1: Elsa ran frantically for store (7)

2: British Petroleum dispute (5)

3: Spooner claims Disney kinda tears content (4-5)

4: ...near fishing boats stocked with cold bait (5,8)

5: Romero races around (5)

6: Hound British regime in India about Gautama's original tree (9)

7: Former spouse was a model, it's revealed (7)

9: Stop fooling around with her at tea break (4,1,8)

14: Spartacus, for instance, delighted theatergoers primarily in Iowa and Oregon (9)

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

17: Carol goes round Royal Botanic Gardens, taking an oblique course (7)

19: Dont alter it, child; its a hat! (7)

21: Writer deserts pea-green match (5)

22: Poor year after Eden lost (5)




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