Crossword for Wed, 4/Apr/2007

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Across
1: Changes direction with care, as befits a benefactor. (4, 4, 5)

9: Sickens up, reels with disgust (7)

10: Kids' swabs getting dear (7)

11: Mixed greens and teals, so dad's remodeled (6,5)

12: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)

13: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

15: Mend a split state (11)

20: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

22: Questionable realtor robs preacher (4,7)

23: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)

24: Song about death for lover of Theseus (7)

25: We hear you require complete articles for this royal thriller. (7,6)

Down
1: Break down door with your visitor to Oz (7)

2: Sex and dope are wrong, it's revealed (7)

3: Duck putting string on ancient peeper (9)

4: Eat after hollow enclosure is discovered (5,2)

5: Glass part of lock (7)

6: Restrained Republican newspaper commentary (5)

7: Exhausted writer found in street (5)

8: Be supplied with wings, over and above (7)

14: His stable is unstable, it's found (9)

15: Smart attempt to encircle a city (7)

16: Kind of blue hereafter, at heart; this might tell what's to come? (3,4)

17: Cut short a wagger? (7)

18: Beethoven's first love - sculptor or composer (7)

19: Sea creatures with vocal powers (7)

21: King John's last to find out (5)

22: Clean air makes Australia singular (5)





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