Crossword for Mon, 18/Jan/2010

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Across
1: Trick winemaker into being reckless (9)

5: Cheer supporting blue automaton (5)

8: Deplorable! Sad wife ugly every second (5)

10: Knock out acrobat's last daring feat (5)

11: Draw a stomach uprising (3)

12: Thus might florin study a silly timekeeper (3-3,5)

13: Tending in Southern California to fight straw man? (9)

14: Only one mortgage reported (5)

16: Proficient in arithmetic, starting with short division (5)

17: In a pickle about where one should apply the acne cream (2,3,4)

18: Leaving firm when dating (5,6)

21: How to eat the heart of marsupial (3)

23: It comes back to the levy (5)

24: In conversation, lists charges (5)

25: Horse eating western mountain ash (5)

26: Foolishly I air spats of beekeepers (9)
Down
1: Many Christmas trees ultimately left in the best place? (5)

2: No stove can allegedly help to make a drink (9)

3: Halest hesitater is lost (9)

4: Leo, wealthy, wig awry, looking awfully old! (6,4,3)

5: Plant again is worse, unfortunately (5)

6: Ironically to the point (5)

7: Make a deep impression, bound by ties initially thought to be most vexatious (9)

9: Holder of strange ritual of troll (5,8)

13: Massacre gives Serb leader mirth (9)

14: Two affirmations in broadcast SALT agreement? (3,3,3)

15: Slippery deck spots are on either side (9)

19: Guided into the West (2,3)

20: Pick a wrong angle (5)

22: Quietly pulls electrical connectors (5)




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