Crossword for Sun, 25/Oct/2009

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Across
1: Fool gets share of standards in 25-down (13)

9: Uncovered references containing name for certain flowers (7)

10: Puzzle with no more significance abroad (7)

11: Requires five kills, or a single accurate shot. (3)

12: Fifty are returning after the last hemp mixture has a short life cycle (9)

13: With Starr finally out, Hyde's plan simply loses traction in a way (11)

15: Call for help oddly stops (3)

16: Crew member is one in operating room (3)

17: Hoarded tiny bits of dryness (11)

20: Extremely tense many times about a private conversation (4-1-4)

22: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

23: Take a whiff up after nasty smell of back-room boys. (7)

25: Continuously flows from the right to enter a competitive group on board (7)

26: ...near fishing boats stocked with cold bait (5,8)

Down
2: Rev. Spooner says 'The person massaging Reagan is illiterate' (3-6)

3: Head off switchboard operator's request for rental (9)

4: Girl hangs around artists' quarter for something to get tanked with? (7)

5: With Silver, all females have such a name! (7)

6: Private dinner starts late (5)

7: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

8: Stupidly sits in ice, snow with Packers fans? (13)

9: Has beach porno upset those repulsed by Web developers? (13)

14: Tending in Southern California to fight straw man? (9)

15: Neat plastic hash pipes (9)

18: Ed hates broken earphones (7)

19: Sir Reed shot an American novelist (7)

21: A 1000 following unsubstantial article (5)

24: What this puzzle is (3)





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