Crossword for Sat, 12/Sep/2009

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Across
1: Mineral springs start to moderate involuntary muscular contraction (5)

4: Pauses awkwardly after error but steadies nerves (5,2)

9: Vicious return to professional serve reveals the inequality. (13)

10: Glass part of lock (7)

11: Hellish painter spoke piffle (5)

12: Stop the drip; its for future use (9)

15: Arranging bail, one has a legal defense (5)

16: Faith in Osiris, lamentably (5)

17: Shipper holds stylus for woodworker (9)

18: Notes spent in Germany (5)

19: Betraying no emotion when Greek god has first expired (7)

23: 29-acrosss kid almost climbing 14-down obstacle, keeping movers in daze (13)

25: Black hole shows how droppings take time (7)

26: A Muslim leader's energy efficiency ratio as a Muslim leader (5)
Down
1: Down by one shot (5)

2: Like powerful uncle in Indian state? (5)

3: Its strange to go back to a novice for a wall decoration (5)

4: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

5: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

6: Its neat for a vessel to have this appearance (9)

7: Worshipper of all gods would gasp at theft (9)

8: Real white, strangely, having more green? (9)

11: Thirteen broken adzes repaired (6,5)

12: Throw a fit as ice is tossed in shower (5,4)

13: Is Asian holy man sinning in Asian capital? (9)

14: Photographers arrived with noodles (9)

20: Run around near a stadium (5)

21: Part, or bring together (5)

22: Inert form of saltpeter (5)

24: Nothing we have to pay (3)




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