Crossword for Tue, 7/Oct/2008

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Across
1: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

3: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

7: Consumer stirred tea in emergency room (5)

8: Trying restful turns around ship (9)

10: Daring time to ship (7)

11: 'Shut up or else,' con snarled (7)

13: Under best Cajun treatment (9)

14: Neither partner finds way out of country (3)

16: Worthless even when recycled (3)

17: Curiously, Maine's not an American state (9)

19: Star first overhauls top landholding, bolstered by French capital (7)

20: Essential money (7)

21: Excitedly rerun tape for thrill (9)

23: Too bad about first of tests for strong man (5)

24: Difficult book about Baltic currency (11)

25: In the manner of a girl (3)
Down
1: Shocked ensemble leader with ascending note during concert (9)

2: Something good made by mini drink packer! (6,7)

3: Barque, for one, is a trio-tutor (5-6)

4: French in time succeeded opening a phenomenon (7)

5: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

6: Bargain holds principal leftovers for French room (5)

8: Feeling produced by tease 'n' sex (5)

9: Holder of strange ritual of troll (5,8)

12: Think at length about lost planet, comet (11)

15: Fatal crime may lead to damnation (6,3)

17: Incorrectly decide half of Israel's enthralled by stubborn one (7)

18: Lovely to have an hour inside for recess (5)

19: Fold suit and undershirt (5)

22: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)




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