Crossword for Sat, 11/Feb/2012

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Across
1: See, you are a cad. (3)

3: Black arts and demons concerned with Homer's issue? (4,7)

8: Questionable realtor robs preacher (4,7)

9: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

11: Crazy to clean sons in awful mess (11)

13: Savings division of e-banking gets enormous returns (4,3)

15: Pampered, after Molly cooked eggs (7)

16: More delicate - cast off bluster (7)

18: Tarpon's head is covered by more opulent kind of scale (7)

20: Toss a hammer into a nuclear accelerator! (4,7)

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

23: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)

25: Barque, for one, is a trio-tutor (5-6)

26: Complain about the horse (3)
Down
1: Deliver a sweetener to mix with your date? (5,4,4)

2: Prepares this way, dearies (7)

3: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)

4: Jewish leader second in the shower (5)

5: Secret art dashed Tennessees desire (9)

6: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)

7: Pattern upset clients (7)

10: My gal talking to Italian at the table? (5,8)

11: Styli nearly unnecessary (7)

12: Exotic cider as cocktail (7)

14: Giant fish, note, approaches Italian city (not capital) (9)

17: Show disapproval at disturbing rest with another needle (7)

19: Be embraced by a giant like the Dalai Lama (7)

21: Disturbance is the robbery (5)

23: Draw the knot (3)

24: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)




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