Crossword for Sat, 14/Jul/2007

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Across
3: Inept casino confused the issue (4,2,5)

8: Catholic starts to raise awareness going into public defamation (7)

9: The last theologian inside to burn the cheese (7)

10: Possible anagram of Lipton Tea (9)

12: Cults with oral sex (5)

14: Fancied poem composed in comfort (5,2,4)

16: Draw the knot (3)

17: Anger that is constraining response (3)

18: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

19: Bridge over white mass of fish eggs (5)

20: Curing bad meat in English river (9)

22: Contracted to bring out in the middle of the road (7)

24: The fashionable set travel together. (2, 5)

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

Down
1: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

2: Cheer supporting blue automaton (5)

3: See, you are a cad. (3)

4: Awful din; ill effects were her own doing (4-9)

5: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)

6: Limits of Indonesian dictator lacking true measure of economy (9)

7: Start reducing salt? (3)

9: Illness I catch performing exercises? (13)

11: 'Naked Gun' actor prepares to be dubbed in (in soundtrack) (7)

12: Most moving parts of rivers add estuaries (7)

13: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

15: Greenspan hugs former wife and the German control freak Haig (9)

21: Rod set up sweetheart to run away together (5)

22: Cleaning aid possessed by Fragonard (3)

23: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

25: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)





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