Crossword for Sun, 29/Oct/2006

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Across
1: Leaving firm when dating (5,6)

8: Circles back in reel (5)

10: Deputy at clock centre sounds hesitant (5)

11: Hun paid out for French prince (7)

12: Like cold chops without nuts (7)

14: Be quick to make appearance with instrument (4,5)

16: More than one grown-up kids' tender hearts god broke? (9)

19: Worker in new data capture firm (7)

22: Freedom of action in desert (7)

24: Horrid, filthy lucre (5)

25: Waves like a toff (5)

26: Weapons in a womans speech (11)
Down
1: Group of merchants discussed gold plate (5)

2: Girl hangs around artists' quarter for something to get tanked with? (7)

3: Instrument on top of tree or shrub (5)

4: Screams Yes! around line 50 (5)

5: Host seems clever, off and on (5)

6: Acknowledging access (9)

7: Diverting a dupe with wrong input (7)

9: Fastens curls (5)

13: Woman losing head after another fall (9)

15: Empty pail beneath sack (7)

17: Dislikes laughter set-up (5)

18: Superficial passage stuck into pig (7)

20: Entertain one of nine daughters of Mnemosyne (5)

21: Laid off, breadwinner's starting to wing it (2-3)

22: Change at noon (5)

23: Accidentally unsex group with ties (5)




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