Crossword for Fri, 11/Jul/2008

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Across
1: Missed hoax set up to trap Sunday drunk outside saloon entrance (4,5,2)

6: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

9: Nothing virile about British actor (7)

10: Hazardous emanation from river used by a crime boss (5)

11: Top card? Excellent! (3)

12: Excessively sentimental dunderhead in the river (5)

13: Gag about alien in Royal Childrens Hospital (5)

14: Some wealthy women, I'm told, gossip about curves (9)

15: Donkey refuge is incomplete (5)

16: ...or stuffed with the alternative (5)

17: Permit me; I rearranged busiest schedule slots (5,4)

19: Dispatch Socialist in contempt (5)

20: Biblical refugee, American flower (5)

21: Perform part of play (3)

22: Explosion is bomb's first and last (5)

24: Come up to breathe the skin? (7)

25: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

26: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

Down
2: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

3: Holds records for drinking. (7)

4: Reports of incursions from Thailand lead to angry outbursts (7)

5: Mink, for one, may fly when theres trouble (3)

6: Dine out and stop being vague (13)

7: Teen unclothes poorly dressed diners (13)

8: Has beach porno upset those repulsed by Web developers? (13)

9: Fling an item of furniture (3,5,5)

13: Okay shot ripped tears in butt (6-5)

17: Officers mentioned coat (7)

18: Bury 'im for the meantime (7)

23: Worthless even when recycled (3)





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