Crossword for Sat, 3/Jan/2009

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Across
1: Go over the highlights of a racehorse's comeback (5)

4: Ditch a worker is cutting (9)

8: Thinks about frolicking like she's a sitcom actress (6,7)

9: 3-down said Sir, I have these! (5,4,4)

11: Disturb earth at centre (29 for your love?) (5)

13: Drained journo covers polly deadlock (7)

15: The rate changed at movie house (7)

16: Oriental talc dispenser deserves acclaim (5)

17: Dangerous undertaking skiers in busy S bend (5,8)

21: Travel - pioneering art form (13)

22: Change order: Raise scope (9)

23: Call girl sting nabs head of Moral Majority (5)

Down
1: Cheer supporting blue automaton (5)

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

3: Starts to prepare every kind of European tea (5)

4: Will examine congregation's response to priest's termination (9)

5: Changes orders and loses 100 (5)

6: Persuade you to buy low-cal, so to speak, for unsightly fat (9)

7: Difficult situation with drug in back of pantihose (5,4)

10: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

11: From now on it's heaven (9)

12: Surer rate confused Washington money maker (9)

14: Animal or container in tree (9)

18: Mostly, you drink with mystic (5; var.)

19: Endless taping-over is unsuitable (5)

20: Child can be heard getting out of bed at dawn. (3, 2)





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