Crossword for Mon, 7/Sep/2009

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Across
2: Plots get Cuban revolutionary leader in a terrible mess (7)

5: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)

7: Goes bad and accepts never-ending abuses of the system (5)

9: Town's rail transport, not express? (9)

10: Vapour trapped in paste amethyst (5)

11: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)

12: Skill is extremely tangible for a performer (7)
Down
1: Loathes key English exams (7)

3: Dickensian Iron Age? (4,5)

4: She's a legend, but she's no leg-end (7)

6: Object for trial (7)

8: The French inheritance given up by a former French colony (7)




Solution (Reversed)
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