Crossword for Fri, 28/Jul/2006

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Across
1: Talk about a set of stores (5)

3: Physician that is right is less interesting (5)

5: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

7: Check German car ahead of time (5)

8: Leonard Marx taking silver from the Windy City (5)

9: Near weightless? (5)

10: Stadium erected one time (5)

11: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)

13: Disgusting donut turned a greenish color (5)

14: Five kills one. (3)

15: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

16: Classic gibberish (5)

18: You audibly ram partner (3)

20: Glint of silica in neat crystal (5)

21: Cook wraps superb sort of bread (5)

22: Genteel Egyptian penning mournful poem (5)

23: Frequently held back by internet formalities (5)

24: In fear of wheat head (3)

25: Boy gripping top of pine tree (5)

26: I'm to get older in picture (5)
Down
1: Mixed race had become a farce (7)

2: Observed, like hot tea? (7)

3: Considers playing his top card for the apartment above Ivana's. (6, 4, 5)

4: Placed in a temporary prison at the last moment. (2, 3, 4, 2, 4)

5: Big problem for police: one kitten's crying in hunger (5,4)

6: Talked about an urban area in the NW (7)

8: Stop cold, then relax (5)

12: Crooked Nile ran on, just not in a straight line (9)

15: Congressman Grant's adversary gobbles steak bone, getting stuffed (7)

16: Attack set up by funny-looking little green man (5)

17: Heard near second-tier city (7)

19: Have no uncertainty - speak out (7)




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