Crossword for Wed, 13/Jun/2007

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Across
1: Satire will become popular (4-3)

4: Shell compensate for loss in certain risky starts (7)

7: Cryptic constructor, perhaps, dims somehow in value (9)

9: Midday change (5)

10: Actress Myrna taking call nearby (7)

11: Beethoven's first love - sculptor or composer (7)

13: Behind and down and out (3)

14: Risk of pole womans end being upset after handy beer (11)

16: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)

17: Abridged fibre project (3)

18: Contrarily leave closet for result (7)

19: Left out cheese for parasites (7)

22: Mechanical worker pushing start button in the depths of the plant (5)

24: Liqueur prices let loose (6,3)

25: Body of bounder having to swear (7)

26: Giant star, a Newton, gets allowances (7)
Down
1: Finishes wet, so throw the girl something for drying (5)

2: Headless rodent left by bird (5)

3: Cook wraps superb sort of bread (5)

4: Lived in whirlpool I bathed in (9)

5: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

6: Extra-radical worker getting tan (9)

8: Bruce crazy about leading medical specialist lying (9)

9: Winning over the heart of quirky scatterbrain (7)

12: Bunyan gets into Moores wine bottles (9)

13: See chess piece: king suffering hard loss (9)

14: Last offer (4,3)

15: Midshipman: one who hates anchor (9)

19: It'll give you some pictures Alice shot (5)

20: Oriental talc dispenser deserves acclaim (5)

21: Fires partner in investment firm, we hear (5)

23: Tender command (3)




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