Crossword for Wed, 9/Feb/2011

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Across
1: Oiled lips crushed egg-like object. (9)

6: Vagrant going over a little river to a foreign country (5)

9: He explored star (7,6)

10: Nick shouts - and theres trouble brewing! (3,5,2,3)

12: Slangily, hip old English author (5)

13: Hear Native American appeal (3)

14: The time before the first woman (3)

15: Startled, grabs sailor (3)

16: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

17: Bridge players under low deer (5)

19: Asian river ordeal; it's upset manufacturer (13)

22: Ball-horses are travellers! (5-8)

24: White or brown powder sounds like pink (5)

25: Decorative plant spray to put in shelter (9)
Down
1: Seabird coming back around by mistake (7)

2: Cruel to waste money (5)

3: Fancied poem composed in comfort (5,2,4)

4: Elderly sundials. (3, 6)

5: Subdue aunt, chasing Chief of Detectives (5)

6: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)

7: Drink is flowing, by the sound of it, where Magna Carta was signed (9)

8: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)

11: Rifles protect lady from 16-down overhead (11)

12: Strange set-back overwhelms blundering bravado (7-2)

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

15: Mimic has to leave the ground (4,3)

18: Skill is extremely tangible for a performer (7)

20: Vapour in the street the final morning (5)

21: Unable to act, I cast 'Rent' (5)

23: Leaders of Orioles and Rangers stick in the dugout? (3)




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