Crossword for Sat, 10/Jan/2009

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Across
1: They're hard to reconcile, Turkey Day displays featuring beef (9)

5: Tramp and rake over green (5)

8: Neuters wrestle majority of such neuters (7)

9: State goddess gets in first (7)

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

12: Student getting black eye, opening light transmitter (5)

13: Craft technique for remodeling aged coupe (9)

14: Dark, scary thing (5)

17: Cheyenne Mountain installation produces radon mixture (5)

18: Nobleman lying about fancy miter's border (9)

19: Slip in terror (5)

21: Discharge from Greek island (7)

22: Starting off, bent charm (7)

24: Indulgent Russian premier hosts English Tory's leader (7)

25: Some gambling couple no longer in bed! (3-2)

26: End is close, doctor surreptitiously revealed (9)
Down
1: Went ahead and used the power button (7,2)

2: Ill-conceived encore run for Edward VIII, say (9)

3: Bobbed beneath in playful attempt to drown journalist. (6, 5)

4: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

5: Clear initial rubbish in drain (3)

6: Hold onto string and file (5)

7: Messages transmitted about a mile (1-4)

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

12: Criticise a computer analysis of famous passage (6,5)

15: Harvesters of needlefish eating there (9)

16: Crooner Mel: famous, loveless, suffering (9)

19: Result of incident (5)

20: One side of the page a clergyman does not finish (5)

23: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)




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