Crossword for Sat, 29/Nov/2008

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Across
1: Writer deserts pea-green match (5)

4: The unwell were first to be cut down.(7)

8: Classic Australian theatre patrons shocked in Dee Why (4,5)

9: Returning sailors receive a penny for singular catch (5)

10: Menzies-Carr alliance keeps eye on silly timers (3-3,7)

11: Vet theatre opening 8-down (3)

12: Cast update: Loy gave a superior performance (9)

14: Beings massing or migrating (9)

16: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

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

20: Confuse cast (5)

21: That may be reversed, but his son sits around pointlessly. (4,2,3)

23: Bands of salmon on way south (7)

24: Calculated average time (5)
Down
1: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

2: Disparage report (7)

3: Plowmen let Amy spread job statute (10,3)

4: Working leader sobs bitterly after blemishes returned (5,4)

5: Oddly corny spot in tomb (5)

6: Venture to comment, 'War God stands in light' (7)

7: Feeling threatened, suggested concealing identity (11)

9: One-time philosophical teaching turned him to classics (13)

10: Thus might florin study a silly timekeeper (3-3,5)

13: Check out flyer for insects after the cricket (4-5)

15: Stapling a strict clump of stomach (7)

17: Making it as One Nation (7)

19: . . . before the last apprentice is put in the ground (5)

22: Child is to depart, finally (3)




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