Crossword for Wed, 1/Oct/2008

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Across
1: A grim ball gown, uncomfortable in increasing temperature (6,7)

7: Bolted up tiptop earthenware (5)

9: Leave Carol, with little taste, spreading rumors (9)

11: I am a blond, going to pot around the midsection (9)

12: Prom couple steals crown from teen dress up (5)

13: Bury terror when its said to raise its ugly head (9)

15: Ran into a section of the time-table (3)

16: Famous gardens said to move one to speak. (3)

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

21: Erin's heir is hardly content (5)

23: Carol keeps cool Austrian coin (9)

24: Every other starlit fish starting search for little percussion instruments (9)

25: Sluggish trainer takes part (5)

26: Location of cheating, fiercer gender (4,9)
Down
1: Duck turning up initially looking like a Walt Disney animated goose (7)

2: Android's gold love-apple close to Krypton (9)

3: Driver who's disappeared in conflict (7)

4: Decide to find a new answer (7)

5: Mild guess: I die reassembling a nasty weapon (6,7)

6: A weak line of defense from wise men? Not! (7)

8: Princesses's attendant, yawning, laid it out (4-2-7)

10: A representative may be a scamp (3)

14: Wood shavings? A strange device for a banner! (9)

16: The bottom of a serving of funnelcake is terrific (7)

18: Clannish discourtesy cut short a Radical (7)

19: Dilapidated sofa contained initially some hot embers: something's burnt remains. (5, 2)

20: Will recipient member stand on one support for the ball? (7)

22: Polygraph unexpectedly traps vandal (3)




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