Crossword for Tue, 28/Oct/2008

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Across
1: Monsieur is immersed in unspecified French river (5)

4: Healthy again, adored having company (9)

7: Movie rating implicit in Baghdad ultimatum (5)

8: Fishing equipment for MacGill? (7)

11: Solo, the pilot rises? No way (3)

12: Pick up line for first man swinging both ways? (5,2,4)

13: Rejecting help, soldiers taking numbers for identification (9)

14: Hold up congressman ... (5)

15: Lived with hind-end whip mark (5)

16: Shock with exclamations while mounting horse (9)

19: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

21: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

22: Good eater has more gut upsets (7)

23: Lazy person paid Leroy a little (5)

24: Ten orphans pointlessly wander around the Acropolis. (9)

25: Artist back on the issue of causing inflamation. (5)
Down
1: Artifical intelligence was at the heart of Kelly Street... Swapped for a blemish that can never be removed. (7)

2: Chewed-up gum in tater -- how toothsome (5-8)

3: Perhaps men sit and eat in a cafe (9)

4: Desires unconventional lives (7)

5: Poison with spite (5)

6: Doris has residence in old West African republic (7)

9: Brand of cat food containing bird's head and feet (5)

10: To initiate into communist units, they carry the vital gas. (3, 5, 5)

14: Self-indulgent life of dolt upset by musical (5,4)

15: Computer screen is OK with time sped up (7)

16: Perpendicular to 25-across? (5)

17: Joke about girl and a protestant (7)

18: Al, Ron's a poor loser (4-3)

20: Without a rabbi a long depression is hard to bear (5)




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