Crossword for Thu, 6/Dec/2012

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Across
2: Little weight spoils head honcho in sophisticated secondary institute (7,6)

8: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)

10: Heavenly visitor to arrive on time (5)

11: Working on mental topic? (13)

12: Made new, breaking away from tired ideas (5)

14: Do springs help American author? (3,6)

17: European arrangement between the French and the German (9)

19: Perhaps a bathroom contractor is mentioned to a former president (5)

21: Chewed-up gum in tater -- how toothsome (5-8)

24: Tied down holding back fighting (5)

25: Fishing equipment for MacGill? (7)

26: Beat it and ran, for example, with Girl Scout ingredients (9,4)
Down
1: First popular promise - extreme appeal (9)

2: Glimpsed middle age, bored (7)

3: A grain or a nut (5)

4: Go over and bring harness-racing horse back (5)

5: Separate sort of cameo role (4,5)

6: Gets in boats at sea (7)

7: Language making a comeback in modern Italy (5)

9: Corrected and finished after mid-December (7)

13: Prig had ma conceal midriff (9)

15: Checks for means of keeping insects out (7)

16: Crush rage created by the additional levy (9)

18: Empty pail beneath sack (7)

20: Feet of people who get talked about (7)

21: Notes spent in Germany (5)

22: Record left by teacher in Siam (5)

23: Fancy decoration thats cool on the surface? (5)




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