Crossword for Wed, 18/Jun/2008

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Across
1: Resolute British detectives in action (7)

6: Challenged Ruby after district attorney (5)

9: Making a comeback in White Horse Inn, a musical heroine (5)

10: Frolicking, pals-y team? (9)

11: Guess what the benighted marksman did? (4,2,3,4)

12: Mild expletive for a sea-faring people? (9)

15: Children nicely holding back secret (5)

16: Go in with singer Karen, forgetting fish (5)

18: Study a French instrument - it's a puzzle (9)

21: Free sex, lips in beer; it's beyond words (13)

23: His stable is unstable, it's found (9)

24: Write off aggregate (5)

25: Not here? No, no! (5)

26: Edits Russian performances (7)
Down
1: Determined attack on a moribund collection (4,3)

2: Profile of study-trip (7)

3: Pass mould (3)

4: Drank up in station (5)

5: No man confused about brave king of Mycenae (9)

6: Curse the mother country? (9)

7: Won back base rate? Done! (7)

8: Praised moving anguish (7)

13: Friendly over age of consent? (9)

14: Nice work - point out the beginning (9)

16: Make money and set out to be serious (7)

17: This'll sound like a Scottish emblem (7)

19: Steal ring, then twitch like a mechanical man (7)

20: Mussel I cooked for breakfast fare (7)

22: Void three stones (5)

24: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)




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