Crossword for Tue, 9/Nov/2010

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Across
1: Ruddy rare steak, say? (7)

3: Cuts back small curls (7)

7: Lawless brute having fun with fair play (7)

9: Hand down entangled net with water damage (7)

10: Leather factory or solarium? (7)

12: Sponges kisses after initiation (7)

14: Patience may be enjoyed by this person perhaps? (5-4)

16: Claim agent has vision (5)

17: Call girl sting nabs head of Moral Majority (5)

18: Capital - a Schubert composition (9)

19: Spas misplaced rosters (7)

21: Opponents of Vietnamese lost a TV war (7)

22: Talk about rent for a piece of property (7)

23: Sick love leads soldier to start contemplating irrationality. (7)

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

26: Animal turned left - that is right for the more righteous (7)
Down
1: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)

2: Sharpen search, including gym and cubbyholes (9)

3: Check about a form of power (5)

4: Conclude a recitation off-key (11)

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

6: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

8: European sage knew a novel novel (9,4)

10: Head of truly despicable fellow's horse (7)

11: Quite put out, doctor axes red tape (11)

13: Erica was taken into the ship to provide protective covers. (7)

15: Quickly shoooting up, alien inside moving back and forth (9)

20: Course left out of Texas city's comeback (5)

22: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

24: See, you are a cad. (3)




Solution (Reversed)
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