Crossword for Fri, 9/Nov/2012

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Across
1: Senator (IN) flip-flops on this clue and others? (5)

4: Elderly sundials. (3, 6)

8: One later enters, like, with matching sides (11)

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

12: Puts down carbon copy of scenery (9)

14: Horse eating western mountain ash (5)

15: Broken shaft ends? (5)

18: Manager of Shanghai operation is one who is making an impact? (9)

21: Minor change in the White House? (6-3-4)

23: Hoarded tiny bits of dryness (11)

24: Be awarded, for example, girl's stemware (9)

25: Caesars standard golf score? (5)
Down
1: We hear you require complete articles for this royal thriller. (7,6)

2: Gingrich said Reagan should not be charged. (7)

3: Sarah has friends from France on a Greek island (7)

4: Group of eight initially outwits coup to enter Tripoli (5)

5: Incorrectly read pitch for a song (4,5)

6: I shall be sick! (3)

7: One might be uplifted if a cockney spoke of arts such as opera. (7)

9: End inner-value conversion in UK taxes (6,7)

11: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

13: Mata Hari flitting around eastern part of old Palestine (9)

16: Gang's in act of relocating (7)

17: Hear Native American appeal (3)

19: Dorothy's aunt incensed sheikdom (7)

20: Carol goes round Royal Botanic Gardens, taking an oblique course (7)

22: Sharp guys: failures with energy (5)

23: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)




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