Crossword for Fri, 6/Jun/2008

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Across
1: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

7: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)

9: Toss a hammer into a nuclear accelerator! (4,7)

10: Vocally disapprove of cop's first beat (5)

11: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

12: One who leads many after something irrational. (5)

13: Crazy Sadie's notions (5)

14: We hear former wife thrilled Richard, an odd person (9)

16: Increases scales; ate sloppily (9)

18: Essentially, what boy is wearing (3,2)

20: Change men in commercial (5)

21: Later round without an opponent (3)

22: Loud den has style! (5)

23: Rifles protect lady from 16-down overhead (11)

24: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

25: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)
Down
2: Extraordinary oldies I greatly revere (7)

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

4: Do people in the medical speciality consider law? (9)

5: Boxer Max returned, holding heroin, for treatment (5)

6: About....about right? Wrong! (3)

7: One who expurgates starting to dance in hat (7)

8: Check out tailless fish swallowing speck of dust with hand-held device (6,7)

9: Cheaper oil, gas distributed in Island chains (13)

12: Organized fatso follows start of precise measurement including pound of seasoning (11)

15: Gets behind in cooking Creole dish (9)

17: The last theologian inside to burn the cheese (7)

19: Eat late, taking in a floozie's new business (5-2)

21: Mark in Russian bar, empty the night before (5)

23: Nightwear and jersey top added in afterthought (3)




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