Crossword for Sun, 7/Sep/2008

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Across
1: Repeated note to help player? (6-7)

7: Sadly curtail urge for land cultivation (11)

10: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

11: Spread out and be quiet in murder (5)

12: Oil depots destroyed ocean habitats (4,5)

13: The rate changed at movie house (7)

14: Grant again drew one crookedly (7)

15: Word in a lexicon describing kind of number (7)

17: Horse fly's, um, retreating (7)

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

22: Second go as a spouse (5)

23: Freshen the atmosphere (3)

24: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

25: Get the wrong idea, damn it, distressed about breaks (13)
Down
1: Determined attack on a moribund collection (4,3)

2: Reciprocal statement admitting a bit of trickery with baseball stat (9)

3: Reliable noise (5)

4: Free sex, lips in beer; it's beyond words (13)

5: Wrestlers grip held. Too bad (7)

6: Bestows clothes (5)

8: German poet in anger tying up Kay (5)

9: Grave study: code-breaking? (13)

14: Remember, mine cries in distress (9)

16: Picture servant returning with torn rag (7)

18: Ace girl gets it wrong (5)

19: Found out in the beginning Gehrig pitched (7)

20: Compiler retains memory of emotional episode (5)

21: Small town, oddly, has room (5)




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