Crossword for Tue, 7/Dec/2010

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Across
1: Graces or christens covering over New Testament (9)

6: Niles' outlet is an old Greek character (5)

9: Later round without an opponent (3)

10: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)

11: He explored star (7,6)

12: Watering devices found in run-down orange sheds (6, 5)

13: Cleaning aid possessed by Fragonard (3)

14: Call for help oddly stops (3)

15: Leaving firm when dating (5,6)

18: Furious persons cry for the lure of the wilderness (4,2,3,4)

21: Sent one page rewritten in military lingo (11)

22: Send back gangster's gun to get ID (3)

23: Dull nicks on a car, we hear (5)

24: Captures openings (9)
Down
2: There aren't any comebacks after such a poor performance. (2, 7)

3: Men hate diffused gas (7)

4: Observed no Knight (5)

5: Schoolchildren made to come back on Saturday make mistakes (4-3)

6: Junk food--its odor? Stinky (7)

7: Expose the French heavy weight (3,2)

8: Is big lady in tatters forever? (9)

9: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)

12: Certain mollusk back in Hokkaido ports again (9)

13: Ice trails guide down to earth (9)

15: Salt sees entrance taking in everyone (7)

16: Press or key source of metal (4,3)

17: There is a Santa, perhaps (7)

18: Church council regulation sounds like a big gun (5)

19: Pay for remedy (5)

20: Get into the archeology scene. (3)




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