Crossword for Mon, 2/Feb/2009

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Across
2: Deliver a sweetener to mix with your date? (5,4,4)

9: Teaching assistants run into hospital facility for shocker (5)

10: I shall be sick! (3)

11: British Petroleum dispute (5)

12: Plastic shelf for meat (5)

13: Young boy capturing us with snapshot, initially incurring mistrust (9)

14: Teen unclothes poorly dressed diners (13)

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

19: Rug behind structure in Scottish city (9)

21: Carried on with wit,energy and a little determination (5)

23: Son is not a perfect man. (5)

24: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

25: Carrying on thus, for some reason I create a sort of boom (5)

26: ...near fishing boats stocked with cold bait (5,8)
Down
1: Witticism provided theme (5)

2: Cretins destroyed tank (7)

3: Daytime 8-down repelled Marx (5)

4: Just desserts for Alpine tumble? (9)

5: Lines upset Frasier's brother (5)

6: Get by heroes? It's unlikely (7)

7: Nothing taken in easing random pains (7)

8: Mother loiters and pretends to be ill (9)

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

15: Two detectives produce a cosmetic (3,6)

16: One's in a band on the way up (7)

17: Ingrained reaction at home for wildlife (7)

18: Mechanical parts preserved in green gin ester (7)

20: Republican badly ires one on the way up (5)

21: Refuse to listen to the middle (5)

22: Cut up after having gambled, with death perhaps? (5)




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