Crossword for Thu, 7/Aug/2008

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Across
1: Actual air of confusion calculating insurance premiums (9)

5: Analyze rotten pears (5)

8: Dolly led runt astray (7)

10: Wildcats left out in capital (7)

11: Sally was ready to embrace East German (7)

12: Making syllabic omission, lied badly in Gateshead (7)

13: Scenery has to get down by starting 12-across (7,6)

14: Chewed-up gum in tater -- how toothsome (5-8)

17: Vie with prisoner and nurse (7)

19: Some engines stop working with less maintenance (7)

21: PIcture lines as in visions. (7)

22: Cretins destroyed tank (7)

23: He's not joking, it's completely lawless. (2, 3)

24: Crazy to signal a desire for the old days (9)
Down
2: Shout it out loud - alternatively, mutter quietly (7)

3: Choice bergamot subdues growler (7)

4: Cruel to waste money (5)

5: Monarch met monarch in even open space for coin-operated machines (7,6)

6: Fixes price and French proof of sale (7)

7: Contrarily tough, arriving cool (9)

8: Start reducing salt? (3)

9: Defusing timer incorrectly can lead to this! (13)

13: Wielding stolen ice pick (9)

14: Mona catching sun with quarterback (7)

15: Kidnaps sailors swimming around the Channel (7)

16: This sort of salad vegetable is found mostly below the surface. (7)

18: After party longing for senior member (5)

20: Sounds like a bright child (3).




Solution (Reversed)
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