Crossword for Mon, 21/May/2007

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Across
2: Throw out faulty nib (3)

4: With greater reason for a riot I riot (1,8)

8: Furniture style improper for formality (7)

9: Coolest sort of cats (7)

10: Neil Armstrong, first to return from another world? (5)

12: Man sees bananas in a bunch (2,5)

13: Grant loud colour (3)

14: Inept casino confused the issue (4,2,5)

16: Bend in Pennsylvania court case related to revered founder (11)

17: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

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

21: Casts off shacks (5)

22: Outdoors running on a pier (4,3)

23: Word of opposition from a friend of Caesar, J? (7)

25: Yonder string Hansard maintains (3,6)

26: Draw the knot (3)
Down
1: Unknown little princess turning food with tongue (7)

2: Capital - a Schubert composition (9)

3: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

4: Runner or dramatist in play (13)

5: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

6: Smells renovated doors (5)

7: Vet injured spine before court (7)

9: Designed dashing ten-ton pick-up (3-5,5)

11: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

15: Fashionable fragrance, fundamentally (2,7)

16: Faint pout encompasses beast of burden (4,3)

18: Plots get Cuban revolutionary leader in a terrible mess (7)

20: Mark in Russian bar, empty the night before (5)

24: Worthless even when recycled (3)




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