Crossword for Wed, 15/Feb/2012

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Across
1: Dont declare relay equipment (5)

4: Except for last couple, Crosby croons passages (9)

8: Begging for one during overthrow (9)

9: One who lives under bridges and eats billy goats and fish (5)

10: Difficult book about Baltic currency (11)

12: Period email feature (3)

13: Wizards covered in liquor and beer...it might be for charity (7, 4)

16: Put hot cocoa out for someone glued to the TV (5,6)

18: No one told sister (3)

19: Feeling threatened, suggested concealing identity (11)

21: Do as I say in short retreat (5)

22: Ceremonial lamb turned about a revolving spit (9)

25: Four tight ends holding a private conversation (4-1-4)

26: Full house often enough to secure this young pet (5)
Down
1: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

2: Bar shows low returns after first of the month (7)

3: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

4: First company get rest when they come to a stop. (5)

5: Healer making solemn statement about upcoming writers (9)

6: Do any letters appear after number 12? (7)

7: Inspects old radical for a moment (5, 6)

9: Yonder string Hansard maintains (3,6)

10: Rejecting crew's work on board, you rest at the stern (8,3)

11: Live with stewed spinach ingredients (4,5)

14: Mix tequila? Be fair! (9)

15: Send Tim out for attitude (4-3)

17: Try to seduce (7)

20: He adopts park tree (5)

23: Sort of uninitiated cheat (3)

24: Non-clerical song (3)




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