Crossword for Tue, 8/Apr/2008

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Across
1: Shifting financial fortunes cause industry revolution (8,5)

8: $100 accepted by tart in buff (5)

9: Cover-ups of some Mexican heads reflected in more angry disorderly mobs (9)

11: Part of speech idealists rebuke (5)

12: Show off Mark's Mazda Miata, for one (6,3)

13: Captures openings (9)

15: Introduction to book by mere poet (5)

16: Heretic repented, holding tissue (5)

17: Rev. Spooner says 'The person massaging Reagan is illiterate' (3-6)

18: Whatever happens, speed is unimportant (2,3,4)

19: Minor Roman deity with a list of the animals of a region (5)

20: It's expedient to engage in habit-forming activity (9)

22: Flower festival is pointless (5)

24: Prejudice runs wild in a legal system (13)

Down
1: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

2: Guess what the benighted marksman did? (4,2,3,4)

3: Tender translator of runes (5)

4: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)

5: Sound practical perception is a normal feeling (11)

6: Game room equipment: wire-wrapped broken dart (4,5)

7: Watch, say (7)

10: He explored star (7,6)

12: Support sign for subordinates (11)

14: Two affirmations in broadcast SALT agreement? (3,3,3)

16: Cher holds arm of flirt (7)

19: Mrs Schmidt's penny is fake (5)

21: Start reducing salt? (3)

23: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)





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