Crossword for Mon, 26/Nov/2012

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Across
1: Opening event in cruise: Iran art display (7-6)

7: Chat host rated poorly in malicious room (9)

9: Mom going topless--that's something else (5)

11: Canadian water ordered for regal tea-break (5,4,4)

12: Brown pit, essentially, in exotic green fruit (9)

15: Fiber extracted from thistles (5)

16: Little island is leased (5)

17: Creep lets another choose the candidate (9)

18: Ministers ordain art evil? I doctor a reversal (13)

23: Six points making a case for one in good shape (5)

24: Cost very little when companion partied wildly outside (4,5)

25: Grave study: code-breaking? (13)
Down
1: Me, in bed with heavenly body? (5)

2: Uncouth chaps met Engel under stress. (4,9)

3: Me in a green tent's ultimate in harmony (9)

4: Home that's high (and very light) by the Sound (5)

5: $100 accepted by tart in buff (5)

6: Spy pinched mere fragments of treaty (9)

8: Child is to depart, finally (3)

10: The man with lack of skill shows cruelty (13)

12: Roll dirt and clay round tip of thumb with three fingers (9)

13: Rascal and wuss taking week off (3)

14: Sound of river crossing (3)

15: All the same, I lanced it, painfully (9)

19: Old fool is strange in New York (5)

20: Down by one shot (5)

21: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)

22: Whistles for tarts carrying pitcher (5)




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