Crossword for Thu, 23/Aug/2012

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Across
1: Slender flame's emanation (5)

3: Not prepared, I'm quick to start underwhelming (9)

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

9: Ring writers, each far from land (4,3)

11: Boxer Max returned, holding heroin, for treatment (5)

12: Flying bugs share desert flora (9)

14: Bargain holds principal leftovers for French room (5)

15: Unpopular cad escorted around shopping malls (7)

16: Give back wares to retailer's layaway? (7)

17: Corpse apt to turn up in science fiction (5)

18: Focus of heroic move inside (9)

20: Blood component in ocean animal (5)

22: Clip of Southern Conservative is very revealing at first (7)

24: Speculated that it was a talkative visitor (7)

25: Coach mens school of North American Indians (9)

26: Batsman leaves cry-baby on the wagon (5)
Down
1: Drive off returning outcast (5)

2: Difficult book about Baltic currency (11)

3: In trial, at conclusion of evidence, Will is nowhere to be found (9)

4: Tine expert no good (5)

5: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)

6: Ships use up aid at sea; remain in a grave situation (4,2,7)

8: One-time philosophical teaching turned him to classics (13)

10: Dilapidated sofa contained initially some hot embers: something's burnt remains. (5, 2)

13: Steer TS into alternative routes (4,7)

14: Checks for means of keeping insects out (7)

15: Grasp a rag usefully wrapping vegetable (9)

19: Light touch of resplendence covers humble beginnings (5)

21: Stranger's radical party rejected (5)

23: Sounds like a bright child (3).




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