Crossword for Wed, 10/Feb/2010

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Across
1: Made certain condemned is guillotined (7)

5: Ach, Cole wrecked something in the ear (7)

9: Quiet floor decoration is a sign of indifference (5)

10: Ante up after raise from volatile Sicilian? (5,4)

11: Drainage area cleaned around 43% of terrain (9)

12: Telekinesis pinches Albanian coin (3)

13: In Germany, the monster returned from the east. (5)

14: More delicate - cast off bluster (7)

16: Carry on after New York's flipped into unconsciousness (7)

18: Globe's automobile award (5)

20: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)

21: Explain a mackerel manoeuvre (4,5)

23: Flying bugs share desert flora (9)

24: Supplied guns in gendarme division (5)

25: Confederate general accepts a satisfactory discharge (7)

26: Finally sews more lavish embroidery (7)
Down
1: Heels were repaired in another place (9)

2: Sikh leader grovels or doodles! (7)

3: To be groovy, must not be left off. (5, 2)

4: Regretted backing up grasping tip of massive object (5)

5: Flimsy cord around basket material (9)

6: Give Adele a seat in said fortress (7)

7: Smaller golfer (7)

8: Troubled tenor with a transposition (2,3,5)

14: Common third power as a soup base (5,4)

15: Giving up silly run, Reds tack on a couple of errors (9)

16: The French inheritance given up by a former French colony (7)

17: A short bird-man climbed in Africa (7)

18: Too many weapons perhaps for this type of bowling! (7)

19: Pack animal swallows a red candy (7)

20: One who gets up part of stairway (5)

22: Almost all choose fresh salmon (5)




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