Crossword for Thu, 19/Oct/2006

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Across
1: Plots get Cuban revolutionary leader in a terrible mess (7)

4: Contemptible information (7)

7: Risk solemn query about primates (8,7)

9: Small piece of fish (3)

11: As in 'Lee goes back to the drawing board' (5)

12: Chatter about some pay-back (3)

13: Tender translator of runes (5)

14: Charged a couple of hundred, getting exploited (7)

16: First lost inability to drop by (7)

17: Spanish wine from a city in Brazil getting German approval (5)

19: Unappealing environment for a snooze (3)

20: Material featured in 'Sudden Impact' (5)

22: Bloody bored inside (3)

23: Banners waving in British position (15)

25: Shelter Dracula's heart - he's representing blood-suckers (7)

26: Poles in trouble with character from Greece (7)
Down
1: Call for help oddly stops (3)

2: An actress? Direct her in male parts (15)

3: Casts off shacks (5)

5: Triumph and uproar shocks conquering men in the reeds (4 11)

6: Odysseus' first requirement - to catch you like Polyphemus? (3-4)

8: Lifeblood of dope (3)

9: Ball mislaid? Caned (5)

10: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)

15: Mrs Schmidt's penny is fake (5)

16: Mischievous child learning to beg (7)

18: Crew member is one in operating room (3)

19: Tweak with wrong end of a pin (3)

21: The sound of a piano is excruciating (5)

24: Child, bask by the sound (3)




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