Crossword for Sat, 19/Sep/2009

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Across
1: Trainee repudiates closing plant? (5)

4: New more whingeing talk of lung disease (9)

8: Jules never dances (5)

9: Write down 'In mink, not frozen'? (9)

11: Be prepared with amnesties for truancy (11)

13: Disturb earth at centre (29 for your love?) (5)

14: Skillfully planned wild tiger acts (9)

16: Rip apart and mostly reject old ballplayer (9)

20: Mature writer beyond racy, impertinent introductions (5)

21: One later enters, like, with matching sides (11)

22: Itinerant labor packing fruit for Great White Hunter? (5,4)

24: Scheme conclusion for jet set (5)

25: Quiet time to bellow fall, for example (3,6)

26: Theme eradicated partly by an eastern ruler (5)
Down
1: Attacked with words to violate one's hearing (9)

2: 3-down said Sir, I have these! (5,4,4)

3: Do over eco-law lacking initiative (2-5)

4: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

5: Mrs. Roosevelt East, Trim, Oregon (7)

6: Part of the USA obscured by mist and dew? (7)

7: Perpendicular to 25-across? (5)

10: Modernise rear, in the opinion of escort (5,2,2,4)

12: Call for help oddly stops (3)

15: The bandleader channels energy.(9)

17: Free to turn some integral tables (2,5)

18: Giggles, time after time, captivated by stories... (7)

19: About....about right? Wrong! (3)

20: Backsliding, Pa reels drunkenly (7)

21: Cooped up in Essex: pelicans, it would turn out (5)

23: Sprinted fleetly? (3)




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