Crossword for Sat, 7/Apr/2012

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Across
1: Recipient of drink describing gown with energy (9)

6: Docile actions disguise visceral character (5)

9: One making a mess is resentful oaf, per Rev. Spooner (9)

10: One hundred-odd bits of bombs in some projectiles initially (5)

11: At first, Sonny and Cher having bizarre duel with one providing slots? (9)

12: Rapidity with which heat's dissipated (5)

14: Confined bear without a trade (9)

15: Getting by with saying It'll cut out tight bends (6,3)

19: Grow, taking head of iceberg to show again (5)

20: Local bounder flooded field, say, producing fruit (9)

23: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

24: Fashionable fragrance, fundamentally (2,7)

25: Knock out acrobat's last daring feat (5)

26: Ninth-inning heroics on one side or the other (9)

Down
1: Too bad about first of tests for strong man (5)

2: Hundreds of restless desires in the trenches (7)

3: Improve me back end (5)

4: More delicate - cast off bluster (7)

5: Otherwise angered by a fencers call (2,5)

6: Is it shrew cooking, or a lamb dish? (5,4)

7: Yes, MBAs worked with a diplomatic staff (7)

8: Gets behind in cooking Creole dish (9)

13: Grasp a rag usefully wrapping vegetable (9)

14: Gory pitch worked as protection for maker (9)

15: Fellow put on English gold hat (7)

16: Alien put in L.A. marriage (7)

17: Most distressing point about dead saint (7)

18: Officer is bit of a nut, they say (7)

21: Scrooge in film is erratic (5)

22: Poverty-stricken, longing to rise up and get education (5)





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