Crossword for Wed, 14/Mar/2007

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Across
1: Further up inside here, it folds back (7)

4: Ask for bit of bread with melted cheese (7)

8: Pal teased about crazy snack food (6,7)

10: Put down cloak and strip (9)

11: Six points making a case for one in good shape (5)

13: Idler, forced to exercise, could be this! (5)

14: Surgical tool gutting curvy coquette (7)

16: Quickly assemble dry pail (7)

18: Third stack of paper rises to the top. (5)

20: Sharp guys: failures with energy (5)

22: Prominent performer with Peru's wild climbing rodents (9)

24: Holder of strange ritual of troll (5,8)

25: Non-professional laggard goes underground (4,3)

26: The olde bull's last moo's for daffodils or buttercups, e.g. (7)
Down
1: Broke out of cell -- found in prickly sedges (5)

2: File abbreviated manuscript before trip promoting graphic series (9)

3: It's truly deep at sea, so they say (9)

4: Sharp part of knife upset bald eagle at first (5)

5: Saturday: Wild nature walk (7)

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

7: Covering for the crown, he put instructions on an envelope (9)

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

12: Gambled on wicked stunt-man (9)

14: California business providing front for fraudulent racket (9)

15: Small green vegetable found in automat, illogically (9)

17: Old pies thrown in sack (7)

19: Rue loss of rare bird (5)

21: Duck down as filler for your caps... (5)

22: The short one may be drawn (5)

23: Highways or turning spots (5)




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