Crossword for Wed, 31/Jan/2007

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Across
1: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

3: Bald guy squashes insect (7)

7: Cleaning aid possessed by Fragonard (3)

8: In hindsight, schedule recorded for a blast (9)

10: Void three stones (5)

12: With greater reason for a riot I riot (1,8)

13: Move to limp off without energy (5)

14: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

16: Unappealing environment for a snooze (3)

17: Grill when involved in corruption (5)

18: Believer taking blame for counselor (9)

20: Old physician in sheltered church (5)

22: Big French cheese, Monsieur Parks, arrived earlier (9)

23: Neither partner finds way out of country (3)

24: Love on night shift (7)

25: Non-clerical song (3)
Down
1: Writer deserts pea-green match (5)

2: Send back gangster's gun to get ID (3)

3: Low fat recovery no exaggeration! (9)

4: Making Athenian weaver drink an informal toast (7,2)

5: Conclude a recitation off-key (11)

6: Notice French ruler at exam is most dexterous (9)

9: Scale Ten after taxes (3)

11: Risk of pole womans end being upset after handy beer (11)

13: All the same, I lanced it, painfully (9)

14: Exercising self-control in Europe, for example (9)

15: Exciting object getting rent by stream (9)

19: Toothpaste brand at Target? (3)

21: Virago would dwell on male chromosome (5)

23: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)




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