Crossword for Sun, 21/Nov/2010

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Across
1: Have a go at draw (7)

4: Art and Fred, horsing around, draw up new plan (7)

7: Decision tree's unusual goal: mirth? (9)

9: Fancies and gets hard around (5)

11: Be all ears about the growth of the Highlands (7)

13: Leaves mid-October accounts depleted by 50 per cent (7)

14: To initiate into communist units, they carry the vital gas. (3, 5, 5)

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

20: Allies see Resistance being captured by brutes (7)

21: Grant again drew one crookedly (7)

22: Approach hoist (3,2)

23: Oiled lips crushed egg-like object. (9)

25: Hole put in curtain by large cat (7)

26: Name of girl training otter in Los Angeles (7)
Down
2: Draw a stomach uprising (3)

3: Officer scratches passageway backing out (7)

4: Check out tailless fish swallowing speck of dust with hand-held device (6,7)

5: Sound measure when Bec lied badly (7)

6: The ultimate objective is not to achieve the goal. (2, 5, 1, 3)

7: Hate because sailor gets a head start in Oregon (5)

8: Cat linked stories to the underworld (8-5)

10: Spooner's bar preserved for supported (9)

12: Drug problem for 100, in sum (9)

15: Expressed willingness to be away before start of day (7)

17: Upset now, pout and confess (3,2,2)

18: A small vault is said to be round about the rail support (7)

19: Montana contract cut back (5)

24: Choose to take the top off (3)




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