Crossword for Wed, 27/Dec/2006

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Across
1: Inherently reproach affinity for worthless stuff (5)

4: Television show genre is like this each time (4,5)

7: Orchestra I'm reorganizing for certain conductor (11)

9: Cull out from top ten (3)

10: ... squeeze in girdle as we speak (5)

11: Child is to depart, finally (3)

12: Stimulant produced as choir paid off (11)

15: Sent one page rewritten in military lingo (11)

17: Draw a stomach uprising (3)

19: Pitchers were transported south (5)

20: Behind and down and out (3)

21: Rifles protect lady from 16-down overhead (11)

23: Nude mag flip-flopped describing it's size (9)

24: Bush, senior (5)

Down
2: Sailor (not in performance) makes volte-face (5,4)

3: Mink, for one, may fly when theres trouble (3)

4: Grovelling to small liberal (7)

5: Old Testament figure appears before New Testament incident (5)

6: Air Force also brought back in action (5)

7: Couples posed for an intimate snapshot (5-2)

8: They hang on to legal fees. (9)

10: Loud noise covers a little line by Bette Davis (4,1,4)

13: Lived in whirlpool I bathed in (9)

14: Male meandering in back of sedan burned 'Sugar' (7)

16: They say I soar, giving fright (7)

17: Measure of heat in the empty room (5)

18: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

22: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)





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