Crossword for Tue, 31/Oct/2006

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Across
1: Fabled creature: She controls men's fooling around (4,4,7)

6: Supplied guns in gendarme division (5)

8: Grand space for bride's mate (5)

10: Grant loud colour (3)

11: Speculated that it was a talkative visitor (7)

13: Simple addition in cult film (4,5)

14: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)

15: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

16: State fair without a tree (6,3)

20: Early missionary or saint in a European setting (7)

23: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

24: One who regrets following initial tendencies is increasingly sincere (5)

25: Slight urge at night (5)

26: Play the clarinet randomly as a diversion (15)
Down
1: Tragic king smuggles the bondage material (7)

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

3: Fishing equipment for MacGill? (7)

4: Satanic personification in 'Anthem A-Gogo' (5)

5: Desires unconventional lives (7)

7: Remove bombast from French painter? (5)

9: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)

12: Emergency room stocks one sensitive organ (3)

14: Everlasting variety for Peter and Paul (9)

15: Quickly strip satay cut (2,1,4)

16: Cull out from top ten (3)

17: Where junior diplomats are sent to spout off (7)

18: Flipper's conclusion (5)

19: Fixed penalty for 9 (7)

21: On the canvas from third strike (3)

22: Heartbreak land (5)




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