Crossword for Sun, 16/May/2010

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Across
1: Venomous enemy lurks in Caspians (3)

3: Steer TS into alternative routes (4,7)

8: Sounds like Brazilian soccer player may make a good fisher (7)

9: Noise heard and used in tennis? (7)

10: African region of birth (5)

11: Shabby and insolent, having no trace of breeding (5)

12: Sigh in the midst of plain neglect (9)

13: So sad coming back, Pops (5)

14: Dear benders (5)

17: Rising from an island in the Atlantic (9)

20: Lightened up, taking part in strip-tease dance (5)

21: Savings plan question starting to intrigue certain Middle Easterner (5)

23: A winner after flippant concern (7)

24: To grin, I become disorderly (7)

25: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

26: Fool to join recital (3)
Down
1: Poplar is like a writer (5)

2: Head is about to allow artists colour range (7)

3: Bends clasps (7)

4: Fool gets share of standards in 25-down (13)

5: Cuts cables again? (7)

6: Following unsullied rise, Edward broke out (7)

7: Observed, yet seen so poorly (3,4,2)

9: Check out tailless fish swallowing speck of dust with hand-held device (6,7)

12: Immediately placed in an awkward situation (2,3,4)

15: Watch Obadiah attend to customers (7)

16: Mobster at heart, presently I'll be carrying expensive pistol on hip (7)

18: Most successful divers can be quite obnoxious (7)

19: Language - one with a Latin derivation (7)

22: Bar one not keeping heart of bargain (5)




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