Crossword for Wed, 26/Mar/2014

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Across
1: Cut corners and omit taking minutes (5)

4: Returned, blushing about departure (9)

8: Stabs at centre-left defences (7)

10: 'I'm at the top! I am chairman of Chrysler Corporation of America.' (7)

12: One who tempts peril grabbing leopard's head (7)

13: Hovers over weaving implements (5)

14: Incomplete raw data lies in largely unexplored regions (4,7)

16: No hefty role at sea for ship-launcher (5,2,4)

19: Navigate by terse directions (5)

20: Almost insane deviation around road works (7)

21: Foreign military base to spout off (7)

22: Electronic man swallowed spring (7)

23: Went ahead and used the power button (7,2)

24: Gantry in Hilton Hotel, Mermaid Beach (5)
Down
1: Group of athletes with club entering quiet sauna (5,4)

2: Disbelieving customer found in fetid cell in turmoil. (7,6)

3: Deranged parent has right to become a spouse (7)

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

6: Coral Sea, perhaps, without a fish (7)

7: Reads novel for loved ones (5)

9: Awful din; ill effects were her own doing (4-9)

11: Deliver a sweetener to mix with your date? (5,4,4)

15: Show sadness when fruit gets cut out (4,1,4)

17: Contracts for primarily nuclear missiles (7)

18: Distance to pull cart up before time (7)

19: Ruck dangerously, stop when many are involved. (5)




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