Crossword for Fri, 6/Apr/2007

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Across
1: Avoids seeds, pits, nuts (9)

4: Do as I say in short retreat (5)

7: Bridge over white mass of fish eggs (5)

9: Backward South American city captured by Bill (9)

11: One-time philosophical teaching turned him to classics (13)

12: Smaller golfer (7)

14: Digs for leads in homicide of the elderly lady (5)

15: Small change comes back as recurring fluctuations (5)

17: Break up the rock group from hell. (7)

19: Tidy up and clean floor finally and decisively (4,3,3,3)

21: Perfume ingredient extracted from lamb ..... er, gristle (9)

22: Siphon windy painter? (5)

23: Was sick girl set up? (5)

24: Clumsy fools head toward prevarication (9)
Down
2: Determined attack on a moribund collection (4,3)

3: Cooped up in Essex: pelicans, it would turn out (5)

4: Designed dashing ten-ton pick-up (3-5,5)

5: Sift around half-killed transporter (3-4)

6: Beat it and ran, for example, with Girl Scout ingredients (9,4)

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

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

10: Dangle South American flags halfway (7)

13: Place new requisition about the brotherhood (7)

16: Sound measure when Bec lied badly (7)

18: Piece of animal leg rotted quickly (7)

20: Headless rodent left by bird (5)




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