Crossword for Fri, 1/Jan/2010

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Across
2: Contemptible information (7)

6: Lovely to have an hour inside for recess (5)

8: City train bears the woman's name (5)

10: I can still hit a little bit (9)

12: Main nerve carries most central portion (5)

13: Private cabin, say, with space (9)

14: Dispatch Socialist in contempt (5)

17: Bill is after Chuck to discipline (7)

18: Treason destroyed Washington insider (7)

19: Execute knitters for pitchers (5)

20: I'm populating a country with lots of life (9)

22: Physician that is right is less interesting (5)

23: Died terribly - ate in. CD inscribed in affection (9)

24: Thoroughly go over Quattro before start of test-drive (5)

25: Accidentally unsex group with ties (5)

26: Novel payment dominating class (7)

Down
1: Fling an item of furniture (3,5,5)

3: Mount Ahab, say (5)

4: Do as I say in short retreat (5)

5: Pests in a census? Distorted. (9)

6: Remote and barbarous Irish school (5,4)

7: Furious persons cry for the lure of the wilderness (4,2,3,4)

9: Swings needing repair by unknown stock gauge (4,4,5)

11: Runner or dramatist in play (13)

15: Captures openings (9)

16: Radical is forced into deal with legal representative (9)

21: Old fool is strange in New York (5)

22: Speak slowly, with upward lilt at the beginning (5)





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