Crossword for Wed, 25/Feb/2009

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Across
1: Some unpretentious language! (5)

4: Lined salt shaker made ready for use (9)

8: Algerian city has grand musical instrument (5)

9: I bang rock, disturbing snake (4,5)

11: Aunt Peg really messed up the cheap seats (6,7)

13: Rejecting help, soldiers taking numbers for identification (9)

14: A humorous writer or two (5)

16: Navigate by terse directions (5)

17: A single AA battery produces no pain (9)

20: Foresees a three iron, just as Cassandra did. (7, 6)

22: It's expedient to engage in habit-forming activity (9)

24: Finger in pot, stirring (5)

25: Show sadness when fruit gets cut out (4,1,4)

26: Going back in where GI trapped predator (5)
Down
1: Condescended to dopes outrageously (7)

2: To make matters worse, Georgia left before Virginia, slipping into a series of heavy metal bars (9)

3: Smuggler participating in arms race? (9)

4: Sort of uninitiated cheat (3)

5: Records that could be hits (7)

6: Entrance activists en masse (5)

7: Betraying no emotion when Greek god has first expired (7)

10: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

12: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)

14: Difficult situation with drug in back of pantihose (5,4)

15: Attacking from behind going downhill (9)

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

17: 'Inane' is not the same as 'inane' (7)

18: Perform part of play (3)

19: A superior helper (7)

20: Starts to prepare every kind of European tea (5)

21: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

23: Start reducing salt? (3)




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