Crossword for Wed, 24/Mar/2010

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Across
1: Mother is outside with Muslim priests (5)

4: Intoxicated with dances and drinks (9)

8: Certainly, Mr. Gore welcoming Republican is bizarre (7)

9: I went crazy for rope (5)

11: One girl fashioned restrictive attachment (3,4)

12: Quiver made from wild elm root (7)

13: Check out flyer for insects after the cricket (4-5)

14: Fool to join recital (3)

15: The time before the first woman (3)

17: Angrier warrior (9)

20: Sexually suggestive, and complicated, we hear (7)

21: Rear oat variety as a way to break up the soil (7)

22: It might reside in monument! (5)

24: Opposition leader has share in speech (7)

25: Nunn completes more circuits than Gore coming around Canary Island seaport (3,6)

26: Balance a small plate (5)
Down
1: Rolling wave rolls into Rolling Stones song (3,3,4,3)

2: Land filled with rain is OK (7)

3: Fish found in the mountains (7)

4: No hefty role at sea for ship-launcher (5,2,4)

5: God, transforming first day into last night, was received (3)

6: Those emptying the boat of water start to belittle those who are seasick? (7)

7: Told a whopper; admit rest (3,4)

10: Drive away roofing material before farmhouse becomes a target area (8,5)

12: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

16: Queen is gaga for horses (7)

17: Half-dressed in scarf for the artistic community (7)

18: Prophetic books about English people in Asia (7)

19: Wine from Greece brought back in canisters (7)

23: Vet theatre opening 8-down (3)




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