Crossword for Sat, 27/Jan/2007

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Across
1: Model of former liberal (7)

4: Box put on line for bird (7)

7: What this puzzle is (3)

9: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

10: Shelter Dracula's heart - he's representing blood-suckers (7)

11: Do as I say in short retreat (5)

12: Bite and flip over -- one way to win a wrestling match (3)

14: To initiate into communist units, they carry the vital gas. (3, 5, 5)

18: Runner or dramatist in play (13)

20: Equips for attacks (4)

21: Dance with Oliver (5)

22: One who does not believe in Castro (7)

23: Tweak with wrong end of a pin (3)

24: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)

25: We blame knitter for small woolly jumper (3-4)

26: Coral Sea, perhaps, without a fish (7)
Down
2: Robin Goodfellow's ice hockey requisites (5)

3: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)

5: Boxer Max returned, holding heroin, for treatment (5)

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

7: State that may be so ideal for sap (5,8)

8: No saint takes strong drink as a remedy (7)

10: Lick up pal (3)

12: No French islands for the other Dr. Crane (5)

13: Scarf free tacos (5)

15: Cloth was dug up! (5)

16: Daytime 8-down repelled Marx (5)

17: British poet associated with gravity is having a merry time (7)

19: Blunder into tall African mammal, with no infrared (5)

20: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

21: Subject to constant cold (5)

23: Odds of niece being born (3)




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