Crossword for Wed, 22/Nov/2006

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Across
2: Criticise a computer analysis of famous passage (6,5)

7: Has responsibility for land she mismanaged (7)

9: Clean air makes Australia singular (5)

11: To leaf I turn, becoming leafy (7)

13: Reproduction? From him? A gelding? (5)

14: A bit of blood in vein of cut of beef (1-4)

16: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

18: Silent, cat backs away from it (5)

20: Kitty's way of saying loudly, 'I hurt'? (5)

21: Object of thinking without pen (5)

22: Exotic cider as cocktail (7)

23: Reportedly hoist Jeter of the NY Yankees (5)

24: Dragging endless returns from a tightwad (7)

26: Upset top duo; I went and confessed (5,2,2,2)
Down
1: See red insect leaving doorknob! (3,3,3,6)

3: Sister gets nothing, we hear (3)

4: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

5: Nathaniel cuddles one squirming infant (7)

6: Ruins Wong under treatment and begins a fresh operation (6,3,6)

7: Last offer (4,3)

8: Fiction position (3)

10: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)

12: Five kills one. (3)

13: Bar one not keeping heart of bargain (5)

15: Put a new value on what secret agent is hiding (5)

17: Briefly viewed bigot's heart, opened like a boil (7)

19: Yellow fowl (7)

20: Backblock not all there (3)

21: Startled, grabs sailor (3)

22: Bend in the middle and wind back (3)

24: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

25: Fuss about a party (3)




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