Crossword for Sat, 3/Sep/2011

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Across
1: Does loose change forfeit worn tail for false head? (5)

5: Kidnaps sailors swimming around the Channel (7)

9: Cook ran; ragout spilled; one might jump to conclusions here? (8,5)

11: Carol goes round Royal Botanic Gardens, taking an oblique course (7)

12: Unpredictable fellow eats vermin (7)

13: Something good made by dwarf barber, perhaps! (6,7)

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

21: One of the fishes fights (7)

23: Also-ran gestates, bearing fruit? (7)

24: Random, visceral troop of hunters - that may open a door for you? (13)

25: Exercise time inside (7)

26: Teaching assistants run into hospital facility for shocker (5)
Down
1: Advice on clues to be anagrammed (7)

2: Snippet from flick I esteem as more distasteful than any other (7)

3: Burning body to face solar-powered clock (7)

4: Butcher shop's opening to sounds of hilarity (9)

6: Furniture style improper for formality (7)

7: Return to summer (7)

8: Bugs going after quiet gags (7)

10: Nothing we have to pay (3)

14: I'm ready to attend university without preparation (9)

15: Innocent bystanders ultimately interrupted by one of the locals (7)

16: After first of December, fisherman is lurer (7)

17: Beg like this - it's lawful (7)

18: Freshly pick up select book on top (7)

19: Tucks in untidy singlets, missing the tail end (7)

20: Nits are possibly more unpleasant (7)

22: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)




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