Crossword for Sun, 31/Aug/2008

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Across
1: Where to find team-players with guts? (7)

5: Officer scratches passageway backing out (7)

7: Random test may pick out a pattern (4,5)

8: Start reorganizing notes (5)

10: Fiber extracted from thistles (5)

11: Big problem for police: one kitten's crying in hunger (5,4)

13: Smuggler participating in arms race? (9)

14: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

16: Bloody bored inside (3)

17: Came back on a diet anew and wasted away (9)

19: Creates nucleotide sequences, written about time after time (9)

20: Only one mortgage reported (5)

21: Wives' strange ideas (5)

22: Suspiciously detain cad -- he may be trying to get into the house (9)

24: Al's framed by unexpectedly nasty examiner (7)

25: Some slippers and also shoes (7)

Down
1: Stranger is using and supplying (7)

2: Drive away roofing material before farmhouse becomes a target area (8,5)

3: Bobbed beneath in playful attempt to drown journalist. (6, 5)

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

5: Trespass upon a moniker exploited by commercials (4,7)

6: Earthenware bowl eventually replacing fragment of prehistoric drawing (7)

9: A little sports car, let to harassed Southern belle (8,5)

11: Mend a split state (11)

12: Arranged date in Cairo means extermination (11)

15: A Spanish guitarist goes out with one in Virginia (7)

18: Some engines stop working with less maintenance (7)

23: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)





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