Crossword for Sun, 25/Mar/2007

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Across
1: Cal Tech is center of Roman Catholic dogma (9)

5: Drunk held firmly (5)

8: Sport for the crook, with minimum weight (9)

10: Get rid of electrical engineer holding about an ounce of grass (5)

11: A sample makes sense (5)

12: Meat and drink kept as refreshment? (4,5)

13: Pitch out heartlessly the cards. (5)

15: Photographers arrived with noodles (9)

17: Ceremonial lamb turned about a revolving spit (9)

19: Moulding material to be included in upcoming miniseries (5)

20: Flora collected metal she owns (9)

22: Airship loose after opening bombardment (5)

23: Culpability starts to goad us into leaving town (5)

24: Uncommon fly on rare plant (5,4)

25: DVD possibly missing model of natural filter (5)

26: Mild expletive for a sea-faring people? (9)
Down
2: Part of speech idealists rebuke (5)

3: Trainee repudiates closing plant? (5)

4: Little woman at her lowest point (7)

5: Surer rate confused Washington money maker (9)

6: Mild guess: I die reassembling a nasty weapon (6,7)

7: Adjust to initially having little juice (5)

8: Place to clean up bit of trash in club meeting area (7)

9: Vicious return to professional serve reveals the inequality. (13)

14: Roll dirt and clay round tip of thumb with three fingers (9)

16: Something to knock down in the alley for writer at home? Back at home? (7)

18: I'm great novel detective (7)

20: Comic Viking bombs fish (5)

21: City official spread rumor, initially (5)

22: Fir tree cut down for kind of wood (5)




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