Crossword for Wed, 30/Mar/2011

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Across
2: Part of Washington cabinet or writing desk (9)

6: You audibly ram partner (3)

8: Sarcastic critic, alas drunk, missing bit of comedy (9)

11: To discover how far in they were, he thumped roughly without hesitation. (5)

12: Rifles protect lady from 16-down overhead (11)

13: Rohmer hiding unit of Resistance (3)

14: Exposed record to drop some data (9)

16: Missouri, stuck in rut, reversed growth (5)

17: Peeled, making Pop embarrassed? (5)

18: Change in ultimate diet for the evening? (9)

19: Child is to depart, finally (3)

20: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

23: Ocean region's pure refreshing air (5)

24: We tangled with this old kitchen cloth (4,5)

25: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)

26: Share chain of hills with pear tree percher? (9)
Down
1: African leader reversed stance on fabled writer (5)

3: Rode with colleagues and complained about John's return (9)

4: Grant uninitiated vote (5)

5: Sing gist of laudatory ode loudly (5)

6: Plowmen let Amy spread job statute (10,3)

7: Fifty are returning after the last hemp mixture has a short life cycle (9)

9: Valuable discovery certain in luxury travel (8,5)

10: French song composed by German boy in study (7)

14: Two characters together, drunk, hit PhD on the third of August (9)

15: Abandons the tents? (7)

16: Proclaimed head of the French delegation initially eating roast (9)

20: Belgian port getting rid of an idiot (5)

21: Bush, senior (5)

22: Hellish center for immigration? (5)




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