Crossword for Sun, 2/Dec/2007

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Across
1: See, you are a cad. (3)

3: Broken shaft ends? (5)

6: Gal who's no spring chicken hugs GI -- both go back for a snort (5)

9: Digs up former chambers containing origins of ancient temples (9)

10: One who regrets following initial tendencies is increasingly sincere (5)

11: Noted Sid returning and ex leaving, put out (13)

12: Ten Canoes galled Chinese (9)

14: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

15: Inactive side (3)

16: Trumpeter is a young person with a pullover (9)

18: End of Oslo peace process making things less clear (13)

22: Loathing for leader leaving platform (5)

23: Goner osculates wildly (4,5)

24: Supplied guns in gendarme division (5)

25: The idea -- a little meal filled you once (5)

26: Attempt test (3)
Down
1: Staffed without Western religion (5)

2: Shatters ice cubes (5)

3: Accept amputation to carry on an affair (4,2,3)

4: Weary of ingredients in butterfat, I guess (7)

5: and 19 A Michelangelo masterpiece right over people's heads here? (7,6)

6: Nick's not at church (5)

7: Flooded out and united (9)

8: Charles' equine edges out clown (9)

12: Ice cream containers to Georgia in wagon (9)

13: Strange lingo - some new expression (9)

14: Woman losing head after another fall (9)

16: Journey permitted for one of three babies (7)

17: A rag in question (2,5)

19: Injured after face off and ready to shoot (5)

20: Eskimo intuitions are half-developed (5)

21: Poverty-stricken, longing to rise up and get education (5)




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