Crossword for Mon, 19/Jan/2009

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Across
2: Reliable, timeless jet (5)

5: Mend damaged ship in foreign land (7)

8: Models from Evans Head extremely purposeful in Red Planet (9)

9: Had dressed formally without a hat (5)

11: Defusing timer incorrectly can lead to this! (13)

12: Male meandering in back of sedan burned 'Sugar' (7)

13: The most artless nearly tack on undershirt (7)

15: Awful riddle about many a swindler. (7)

18: Curve interrupts any kind of chaos (7)

20: A little sports car, let to harassed Southern belle (8,5)

23: Jacket flap with label's centerpiece inverted? (5)

24: Excessive praise for bad spelling ain't aloud (9)

25: Painting a beard (7)

26: Preliminary form of conscription (5)
Down
1: Midday change (5)

2: English poet writes about head of Scottish queen (7)

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

4: Call back upstart by the Spanish king of old Portugal (7)

5: Rescind bad judge (7)

6: Trunk contains piece of old knotted rope (5)

7: Shes said to be funambulists best friend (7)

10: Break down door with your visitor to Oz (7)

12: Will addition show 100 + 0 + 500 + 99 + 49? (7)

14: A woman loved what a Roman is content about (9)

16: Stand up funny as partner to a broom? (7)

17: Confederate general accepts a satisfactory discharge (7)

18: Piece of tile in a solid floor (7)

19: Talk about Spanish river vehicle (7)

21: A friend comes round to appease (5)

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




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