Crossword for Thu, 17/May/2012

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Across
1: Special delivery can erase a problem. (9)

6: 'Pops' is very unhappy in retrospect (5)

9: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

10: 28 Invitation for man to get a cent on November 5? (5,3,3,3)

11: Tapes note on particular kinds of trousers (7)

13: Sailing homewards popular by spring (7)

14: A date in February: good time for a massacre? (10,3)

16: Barmaid slipped, leading to a spectacular disaster. (6, 7)

20: Green-light southern Indian chief (2-5)

21: Artist portrays Manx sow, carefree cassowary? (7)

22: Just grazed the pasty? (4-7)

24: What this puzzle is (3)

25: Child can be heard getting out of bed at dawn. (3, 2)

26: Makes a killing in Massachusetts land holdings (9)

Down
1: Motorist to welcome hailing? (3-6)

2: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

3: Mostly yearning for headache remedy (7)

4: Birds in the wilderness (5)

5: Anyway - no! (3)

6: Questionable chits rejected by Abbott (7)

7: Does the wandering hero duly hostess perplex? (7)

8: Zoom back from the deeps (5)

12: Rebel action disrupted festival (11)

13: Frost to cover the cake (3)

15: Figures wrong girl is hugging nobleman (9)

17: Eat after hollow enclosure is discovered (5,2)

18: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

19: Song describing rat in a place of calm and beauty (7)

20: Favors free time, initially, among soldiers (5)

21: Kicks watercraft (5)

23: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

24: Mink, for one, may fly when theres trouble (3)





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