Crossword for Sun, 18/Oct/2009

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Across
1: Making a comeback in White Horse Inn, a musical heroine (5)

5: Eric, having set off, repeats something memorized (7)

9: Guess what the benighted marksman did? (4,2,3,4)

10: How the obese appear to hunt? (4,5)

12: Material featured in 'Sudden Impact' (5)

13: Is South about to evacuate? Just the opposite! (5)

14: Burning body to face solar-powered clock (7)

17: Crazy macabre American authors outside making perfumed hair applications (7)

18: Words can be arranged to be cutting. (5)

19: Acid destroyed brace (5)

22: With great strength holy man stays above reproach (9)

23: Illness I catch performing exercises? (13)

25: Play faster in last 3/4 of piece with bass held backward (5,2)

26: Predatory bird decapitated dog (5)
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2: Strange lingo - some new expression (9)

3: Sadly, Tim agreed and left the country (9)

4: Does the wandering hero duly hostess perplex? (7)

5: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

6: Reportedly burned beet (5)

7: Symbol to recognize (5)

8: Beat it and ran, for example, with Girl Scout ingredients (9,4)

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

11: I deem turds a regrettable necessity (11)

15: Relative takes funny pose on glass bridge? (9)

16: Worshipping, as 51 sing following marriage vow (9)

20: Host seems clever, off and on (5)

21: Bound to hear what they did about the leak? (5)

24: A representative may be a scamp (3)




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