Crossword for Sat, 9/May/2009

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Across
1: Most distressing point about dead saint (7)

4: Sing out, holding scale notes in European city (7)

8: Acid destroyed brace (5)

10: Gin and tonic's third gulped by person arising (9)

11: Finish suddenly, like an oboe? (1, 4, 2, 3, 3)

12: Put a new value on what secret agent is hiding (5)

13: Greenest state with the least elevation (9)

15: Beneficial to lose funny inside. Who? Me? (9)

17: Englishman opening a can to dine at home (3,2)

19: He explored star (7,6)

20: Article entered in it that is a point for silly remarks (9)

22: Make southpaw north (5)

23: Having red nose, turned back (7)

24: They say he trembles before the eastern lords. (7)
Down
1: Tending in Southern California to fight straw man? (9)

2: Moulded indicator of irrevocability (3-4)

3: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

4: Ms Starr has a gun, a mere toy (9)

5: Teen unclothes poorly dressed diners (13)

6: Running across obscene libation from the East Texas town? (7)

7: Draw a stomach uprising (3)

9: Rocks lure a breeding fish (4,9)

13: Obscure time to start work in a happy place (5,4)

14: Projects finally house guys in camps (9)

16: Place to grow fruit trees, or a leafy veggie (7)

18: Rod, in military vehicle, produces material for leather worker (7)

20: Frost to cover the cake (3)

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




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