Crossword for Fri, 23/Aug/2013

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Across
1: Bird is short distance behind husks of wheat (9)

6: Trunk and tangled roots (5)

8: Opening building in church grounds in Sulawesi (7)

9: Snubbed a vacant journalist (7)

11: Clearances for the first couple of characters to find answers. (11)

14: Oriental festival on the first of November (7)

16: Beast Irishmen used for fertilizer. (7)

17: The control is over that way (7)

18: Apprentice relinquishes heart to temptress (7)

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

21: Backsliding, Pa reels drunkenly (7)

23: Drug matures thick soups (7)

25: Take tricks with this wit? (5)

26: Consigned elegant, short, new dresses in red (9)
Down
2: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)

3: Chain some; cuff objectors (3)

4: Arenas almost filling with the hooter (5)

5: Learn and teach about grief (9)

6: Thus might florin study a silly timekeeper (3-3,5)

7: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)

8: Exciting moment, actor as reviewer (11)

10: Ceases running features about Republican in serious trouble (4,7)

12: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

13: Girl hatches subterfuge in prison tower (11)

15: Crooked Nile ran on, just not in a straight line (9)

20: Reject the upset outcast (5)

22: Telekinesis pinches Albanian coin (3)

24: Draw a stomach uprising (3)




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