Crossword for Wed, 4/Dec/2013

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Across
1: Many sound prospects for prospectors (5)

3: Pilot sometimes sounded more irritated (5)

8: Romany, some dodgy psychiatrist? (5)

10: Collector is slow mover garnering southern selenium (9)

11: End inner-value conversion in UK taxes (6,7)

12: Nasty note meant showing you're sorry (9)

14: Tours river, merging initial impressions with remembered legends (5)

15: Some gambling couple no longer in bed! (3-2)

17: Scold head of state entertained by Ted Turner? That's most astute! (9)

19: Free for all by lack of padlocked freight compartments (2,5,6)

22: Castle ran out of ones forebears (9)

23: Uncharacteristically, Dickenson pens uplifting romantic ballad (5)

24: Gnomelike feature of parallel fingers (5)

25: Full house often enough to secure this young pet (5)

Down
1: Archipelagos concluded thus in Nigeria (5)

2: Crackers in bulk? Yes (3-4)

3: Animated lass in set is Snow White (9)

4: Republican badly ires one on the way up (5)

5: Certain number supporting most of move for dismissal (7)

6: A date in February: good time for a massacre? (10,3)

7: Agent accepts mere garbage for contract (9)

9: Logical oil Polish chap applied (13)

12: Companion to take care of worker (9)

13: Sailor Paul in oilcloth (9)

16: Officers mentioned coat (7)

18: Dionne's place in England (7)

20: Short line in letter back-fires (5)

21: A friend comes round to appease (5)





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