Crossword for Fri, 27/Feb/2009

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Across
1: Tapes note on particular kinds of trousers (7)

5: A correspondent from every point on island (7)

8: Perpendicular to 25-across? (5)

9: Sailors with thin skins are cinematic celebrities (4 5)

11: Get the wrong idea, damn it, distressed about breaks (13)

13: Hidden? Did I guess wrong? (9)

14: Challenged Ruby after district attorney (5)

15: Monsieur is immersed in unspecified French river (5)

17: Everlasting ringing of changes, outside inside, upside down (9)

20: A little sports car, let to harassed Southern belle (8,5)

23: Puts down carbon copy of scenery (9)

24: 19-across, perhaps, bites indeed (5)

25: Essential record for principal speaker (7)

26: Senator mentioned housing trouble (7)
Down
1: Kingdom seen in nature, almost (5)

2: Legendary rich guy gets called, then folds (7)

3: 'Ransom'? Lame. Run 'Rocky I', 'II', 'III', etc. (5,8)

4: Reduces strain from years of tension (7)

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

6: Wander idly from home and err (7)

7: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

10: On your feet! (8,5)

12: Some people differ about Castro (5)

13: Gloomy semi-dull firmament (5)

16: Madonna and child in stonework? (7)

18: Slimeball guards existence in French refuge (7)

19: Guess I'm gettin' old and wise at last (7)

21: Don't take time out (5)

22: Unease from irritating gnats (5)

23: Telekinesis pinches Albanian coin (3)




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