Crossword for Thu, 16/Feb/2012

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Across
1: Bale-out? No! In French Mediterranean nation? (7)

4: Fee I'm raising in Jersey (7)

8: Teen unclothes poorly dressed diners (13)

9: Loudly certain Woodbridges a near-certainty (5,4)

12: Stan's partner is central to Follies (5)

14: Is this small cockatoo a fool? (5)

15: I am starting to sail in Lake Dunk (7)

16: Grass surrounds cask, newly calibrated (7)

18: Weird canal echo (5)

20: Scholars in Sunday School a long time (5)

21: Conforming to good taste, I cast thee out (9)

23: Taking ones cue from subsequent courtship (9,4)

25: Dawn is close, with a new beginning (7)

26: Learner said it was a huge green monster cooked in gravy. (7)
Down
1: Smoked salmon for the auditor with hair (5)

2: Threw out long bit of dried up meat (7)

3: Solo, the pilot rises? No way (3)

4: One Miss Horn takes a tumble with guys having outlaw spirits (11)

5: Beware of these they show the funny side of the month! (4,2,5)

6: Smaller golfer (7)

7: Vulgar and insipid (9)

10: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)

11: Hoarded tiny bits of dryness (11)

13: Trying restful turns around ship (9)

17: Put out a journal in a foreign language (7)

19: Returning, some felt it necessary to provide grounds for legal claims (7)

22: Heavenly visitor to arrive on time (5)

24: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)




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