Crossword for Sat, 17/Nov/2007

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Across
1: Utter poppycock! He was a Dutch painter (5)

4: These people don't know 'Cats' song I arranged (9)

10: European arrangement between the French and the German (9)

11: Where transport is provided by chopper (5)

12: Greenest state with the least elevation (9)

13: Earthenware bowl eventually replacing fragment of prehistoric drawing (7)

14: Won back base rate? Done! (7)

16: A murder suspect, one hears? (7)

19: Love nest a real sign of being pretty easy (3-4)

21: Fur from hormone treatment I took - it's mortifying (4,5)

23: He went off to Nod, taking second-rate cottage (5)

24: Offering resistance, cattle run wild (9)

25: Dairy stock entails wrangling around 2000 (9)

26: Chip covered in Nirvana chocolate (5)
Down
2: Spooner claims Disney kinda tears content (4-5)

3: The rope got twisted by a shrub (3-4)

4: Chief among any political disorder (7)

5: Round LA complex having meeting points? (7)

6: Separate from the pile, not in following type (4,3)

7: Paper boy? (5)

8: Drive away roofing material before farmhouse becomes a target area (8,5)

9: A cold fish embraces that woman's mortal weaknesses (8,5)

15: Katrina limits Bill, a little jerk, blowing downhill (9)

17: Again bring food to certain soldier (7)

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

19: Iridescent stone contains quirk having to do with vision (7)

20: Limit each inn's brawling (7)

22: Di returned to me in France: back for the turn of phrase. (5)




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