Crossword for Sat, 16/Feb/2008

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Across
1: Play faster in last 3/4 of piece with bass held backward (5,2)

4: The portrayal of things as they are in Mailer's novel (7)

8: Unfit American Indian getting pale about note (9)

10: Initially, celebrated Rough Rider's pick is to fish (5)

11: Troop of monkeys around city garden spot (7)

12: Italian composer making endless noise, sir (7)

13: Old English mixed into edited cryptic shows exceptional maturity (9)

14: Broadway show's inane cast (5)

15: Quiet floor decoration is a sign of indifference (5)

17: Play with exaggerated emotions made moral play (9)

20: One who does not believe in Castro (7)

22: Press or key source of metal (4,3)

23: Tours river, merging initial impressions with remembered legends (5)

24: Cutthroat congressman's back in lifeless Ohio primary (9)

25: After first of December, fisherman is lurer (7)

26: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)
Down
1: Putting your foot in it may incite Royal intervention (7)

2: 'Shut up or else,' con snarled (7)

3: Two characters together, drunk, hit PhD on the third of August (9)

5: Singers in a special Tosca production (5)

6: Language - one with a Latin derivation (7)

7: Ordering a meal is causing uneasiness (7)

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

12: Siegfried's partner, Al, marries for portion of proceeds (9)

14: African dromedary carries Ethiopian princess (9)

15: Suppressed and overturned, it's taken flight (7)

16: Lawless brute having fun with fair play (7)

18: Devastation when head is cut off before a party - it may be eaten as first course (7)

19: Flower making a comeback in a phenomenal display (7)

21: Drive carefully and live (5)




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