Crossword for Tue, 9/Sep/2008

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Across
1: Bunch of devotees arouse group (3,4)

5: Something useful - like a matching collection? (5)

8: Residue has scattered (3)

9: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

11: Illness I catch performing exercises? (13)

13: Woody is to eviscerate Human Resources, that is (7)

14: Mild ado about a card game (3,4)

15: Sally was ready to embrace East German (7)

17: Confirm what Goldilocks discovered (4,3)

20: Then, one crisis ends after call is for healthy exercises (13)

21: Clearances for the first couple of characters to find answers. (11)

23: Capture perfect score in review (3)

24: Inspect gold dust without refining initially (5)

25: Expert in scriptural interpretation in Devon River to fetch sweetheart (7)
Down
1: Toss about a metre on fire (7)

2: Solo, the pilot rises? No way (3)

3: Smaller golfer (7)

4: Hostile warning: one man has captured the queen (11)

5: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)

6: A fool had peas cooked (7)

7: Spoke disrespectfully about university being obsolete (7)

10: Copiers of Indians' top batter: Maris, Ott (9)

11: Whip up last cocktail slings! (9)

12: Difficult book about Baltic currency (11)

15: Lion-hearted ruler is free after getting burn (7)

16: Twisted small filament down around end of spool (7)

18: A rag in question (2,5)

19: This'll sound like a Scottish emblem (7)

22: Child is to depart, finally (3)

23: Odds of niece being born (3)




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