Crossword for Wed, 6/Aug/2008

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Across
1: Gather together with former U.S. statesman in the audience (5)

5: Associate to give 25-down up, cryptically? (7)

9: Projects finally house guys in camps (9)

10: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

11: Free sex, lips in beer; it's beyond words (13)

12: English poet writes about head of Scottish queen (7)

13: Charge one piece of mandarin fruit (7)

16: Graphically describe harbour light (7)

18: Aliens work infrared thrust (7)

20: 3-down said Sir, I have these! (5,4,4)

23: One may be transported by this kiss, it's said (3)

24: Curiously, Maine's not an American state (9)

25: Crazy, angered, mad, (7)

26: Belated top-and-tailing to gladden one's heart (5)

Down
1: Making Athenian weaver drink an informal toast (7,2)

2: Crooked Nile ran on, just not in a straight line (9)

3: Thelma's abandoned small towns (7)

4: Classic Australian theatre patrons shocked in Dee Why (4,5)

5: A group performing with energy 'The Untouchables' e.g. (5)

6: Sissy's fabric cleaner suggested by the Rev. Spooner (7)

7: Unprepared, a little gerbil darted the wrong way (2-3)

8: Predatory bird decapitated dog (5)

13: Fashionable fragrance, fundamentally (2,7)

14: Shock with exclamations while mounting horse (9)

15: Their game baffled a cloister (9)

17: Whirling eel in enclosure (7)

19: One wink, or forty (4-3)

20: Bleat about delay (5)

21: Republican badly ires one on the way up (5)

22: Some wear medals when carrying weapons (5)





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