Crossword for Mon, 28/May/2012

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Across
1: With a big smile, catch a Royal fish (5)

4: Able to contend, not being disheartened (9)

8: Detains stranger as a substitute (7)

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

11: Frequently held back by internet formalities (5)

12: Housework really sucks! (9)

13: Hot, like one expressing disapproval? (5)

14: Finally nuts, Im crazy for cow (9)

15: Detective negotiated nicer post (9)

20: The Doors have these so-called musical sessions (5).

21: He is round (grossly fed) (9)

22: Mother and boyfriend rumored to dance (5)

24: Drive a head (5)

25: Clobbering out in boxing venue (7)

26: Perhaps men sit and eat in a cafe (9)

27: Serious changes at the end of a kind of train (5)
Down
1: Sadly, tribe sends off good pals (4,2,7)

2: To live with a former partner is the final result (5)

3: Madonna and child in stonework? (7)

4: Splits sticks (7)

5: Little bit quiet about Old Dick before the end (7)

6: True one hiding along the way (2,5)

7: Enjoy a mud pie and trade it freely (3,4)

10: I'll go geld guys - suprisingly he laughs raucously. (7, 6)

16: Learner said it was a huge green monster cooked in gravy. (7)

17: Witty remark, for example, about constant batterer (7)

18: Revolutionary near the capital (7)

19: Defence work to smell a rat all over again (7)

20: 3-down Juvenile tramp attacking rook (7,6)

23: Hot rock legend divided mothers (5)




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