Crossword for Fri, 29/Feb/2008

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Across
1: Rabbit (male) with nest of bunnies? (5)

4: Make a deep impression, bound by ties initially thought to be most vexatious (9)

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

11: Mark of a wound allowed to flow red (7)

12: Decide to find a new answer (7)

13: Clear initial rubbish in drain (3)

14: Hoarded tiny bits of dryness (11)

16: Discounting losing one's sense of humour? (8,3)

18: What this puzzle is (3)

19: Arena performer's damage involving time and trouble (7)

20: Beginning of understanding December 1st cover (7)

22: Cook ran; ragout spilled; one might jump to conclusions here? (8,5)

23: Returned, blushing about departure (9)

24: Ruse duck (5)
Down
2: He explored star (7,6)

3: Its strange to go back to a novice for a wall decoration (5)

4: Reportedly went after pamphlet (5)

5: Get used to being in Treasury Department with a secure job (7)

6: Capital investment producing hard faces (9)

7: Short time for the Irish (5)

8: Before long 1000 French to be having Sunday fowl (7)

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

14: Dry out. Heated? Dry out (9)

15: Lunch time eating: an annoyance for figure (7)

17: Contracts for primarily nuclear missiles (7)

19: No hay for big punch fabricator (5)

20: Cut up after having gambled, with death perhaps? (5)

21: Will, in the past, cried out 'timber' (5)




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