Crossword for Wed, 26/Nov/2008

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Across
1: Restricting agent's rant about ill-conceived trade (9)

6: Part, or bring together (5)

9: Cheaper oil, gas distributed in Island chains (13)

10: Talk about rent for a piece of property (7)

11: Mad? O, yes! Mad dog! (7)

12: Ceases running features about Republican in serious trouble (4,7)

16: Playwright rethinking copyright wrangle (4,7)

18: Wounded bats put back to bed (7)

21: A poor horse to run into a revised composition (7)

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

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

24: Simple addition in cult film (4,5)
Down
1: Offering resistance, cattle run wild (9)

2: Trumpeter is a young person with a pullover (9)

3: Tarpon's head is covered by more opulent kind of scale (7)

4: Gershwin comes back on train with tortured spirit (5)

5: Surer rate confused Washington money maker (9)

6: Sitting in tree, sparrow's beginning song (5)

7: Excellent osseous dark wood (5)

8: Ideas educate to reveal that things have relaxed.(5)

13: Write down 'In mink, not frozen'? (9)

14: Completely drenched, laid umbrella tip gauge down (9)

15: Moldering, moldering panhandler? (4,5)

17: Windows creator more neglectful after hearing's end (7)

18: Notice District Governor in the cyperaceous plant? (5)

19: Entertain one of nine daughters of Mnemosyne (5)

20: Bound to hear what they did about the leak? (5)

21: Fools the Proletariat after banning Marx's _Capital_ (5)




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