Crossword for Fri, 24/Jul/2009

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Across
2: Shifting financial fortunes cause industry revolution (8,5)

9: Heart of delicatessen, certainly, is meat (7)

10: Bunch takes advantage of floating plants (7)

11: A month's work for a denizen of the deep (7)

13: Skier's heart rivals climbers (5)

14: Taking the future into consideration, Chaney acquires farmstead (4-5)

15: Chatter about some pay-back (3)

17: Small piece of fish (3)

19: A foreign dictator is traveling in U.S. limos (9)

21: Annoying ad for toaster design? (3-2)

22: Prisoner's diplomacy at meeting. (7)

23: The last movement produces great passion (7)

24: Outfit wins Tet Offensive (7)

26: Those who study bugs' motion got less confused (13)
Down
1: Tongue-in-cheek advice to enter cast (5,1,3)

2: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

3: Lott, e.g., is upset. Treason! (7)

4: Former name for joint audition (3)

5: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

6: Pieces of improperly lit tachometer returned with malice (7)

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

8: Relieves each emergency service (5)

11: Upset top duo; I went and confessed (5,2,2,2)

12: Criticise a computer analysis of famous passage (6,5)

16: Puzzling mutation of giant mice (9)

18: Water ceremony or fire in a crisis (7)

20: Nothing changes in reproductive organs (7)

21: Part, or bring together (5)

24: Draw a stomach uprising (3)

25: Call for help oddly stops (3)




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