Crossword for Wed, 2/Jan/2013

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Across
1: Copy hasn't disturbed yes-man (9)

6: One with no trust in decency, niceness, etc. (5)

9: German award making press cranky (4,5)

10: Backroom houses last component of engine (5)

11: Part of American's eerie pronouncement after a miracle (1,3,3)

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

13: Inspects old radical for a moment (5, 6)

15: Mend a split state (11)

19: Exotic cider as cocktail (7)

21: On second thoughts, rising fish glitter (7)

23: Go over the highlights of a racehorse's comeback (5)

24: Poem about social worker left with grace (9)

25: Put two together? (Just skinned the fruit.) (5)

26: Projects finally house guys in camps (9)
Down
1: Carol has trouble on the high seas (7)

2: Cold imperialist pockets $1000 regarding ancient cousin (3-6)

3: Robin Goodfellow's ice hockey requisites (5)

4: Climactic age opal tossed (7)

5: Drunkard turns to observe drunkard (7)

6: Big French cheese, Monsieur Parks, arrived earlier (9)

7: Observed no Knight (5)

8: Wags components of 22-across (5)

13: Little Digger pens sailboat drawing sheets (6,3)

14: Love sounded wrong for aunt and primate (5-4)

16: Senator mentioned housing trouble (7)

17: Cretins wrecked the water tank! (7)

18: Siamese toolmakers reportedly in colorful clothing (3-4)

19: A squadron leader may ambush a band (5)

20: Ornamentation used in the a la mode coronet (5)

22: Warning! The French return to take up weapons.(5)




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