Crossword for Sun, 11/May/2008

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Across
1: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

3: Beams in reverse alphabetical order (7)

7: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)

9: Dine out and stop being vague (13)

10: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

11: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

12: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

14: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

16: Mary-Jane crochets her Pop a jumper (11)

18: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)

19: Privy to accessibility (11)

21: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)

22: Liquidation of one country led by pair of fools (13)

24: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)

25: Heads appearing strange in distorting lens (7)

26: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

Down
1: A changing sort of forced labour (5-4)

2: Not moving yet (5)

3: Road without a pole (4)

4: Numbskull dad forfeiting right to notice (7)

5: Weird canal echo (5)

6: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

7: Ore crusher uses sticker for 1/10 cent (5-4)

8: Altogether steep (5)

11: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

13: Rejecting help, soldiers taking numbers for identification (9)

15: Not clear but large; you ring us after the morning (9)

17: A game stuffing ketchup in balloons (7)

19: Links to some 7-down (5)

20: Homer's travail: 'I don't finish daily retreat.' (5)

21: Ball mislaid? Caned (5)

23: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)





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