Crossword for Thu, 6/Dec/2007

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Across
1: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)

6: Sounds like a wolf on the coast (3)

8: What incompetent repairman says to beggar? (9)

9: Links to some 7-down (5)

10: Cook ran; ragout spilled; one might jump to conclusions here? (8,5)

11: My gal talking to Italian at the table? (5,8)

12: Rocks lure a breeding fish (4,9)

18: Modernise rear, in the opinion of escort (5,2,2,4)

20: Robe's eyelet exposes more than fat (5)

21: Vile dingo disturbed in sinful act. (9)

22: Capture ten heading north (3)

23: I deem turds a regrettable necessity (11)
Down
2: Seen in elegant wraps from the East, former redhead? (5)

3: Get sick chasing a grand lady's maid (7)

4: Performs skinning of a flopping fish on the table (7)

5: Apprentice relinquishes heart to temptress (7)

6: Wilder badger liberates (9)

7: Taking out ruler after Year One (7)

8: No hay for big punch fabricator (5)

9: Master strokes and coos in your ear (5)

11: Second chunkiest is shortest and thickest (9)

12: Windbag has nothing on after dance? (7)

13: Front men, we hear (5)

14: Birds lay first of eggs on parts of shoelaces (7)

15: Was pertinent Associated Press page misrepresented? (7)

16: Working sequentially (2,5)

17: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

19: Take in to feed silver winner (5)




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