Crossword for Fri, 30/Jul/2010

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Across
1: Bugs going after quiet gags (7)

6: In fear of wheat head (3)

9: Sadly curtail urge for land cultivation (11)

10: What's left when you burn the tree (3)

11: Food product of the sea - including fish (9)

12: Year inside for undone expert (5)

13: Arena performer's damage involving time and trouble (7)

14: Layperson to straighten us clear (7)

16: Sob wildly and preserve secret (7)

18: Turncoat's first motive for disloyalty (7)

19: Not moving yet (5)

21: Plenty supporting nuclear process (9)

23: Frost to cover the cake (3)

24: Drunkard turns up near beach, reversing new habit, to sleep fitfully (4,3,4)

25: Worthless even when recycled (3)

26: Checks for means of keeping insects out (7)

Down
1: Mineral springs start to moderate involuntary muscular contraction (5)

2: Harsh taxes on certain salts (9)

3: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

4: Fighter to join around fourth of April (7)

5: Mum gets customers some guns (7)

6: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)

7: Set display on the Fourth of July (5)

8: Long Rhine sequence in Wagner's work (9)

12: Bobbed beneath in playful attempt to drown journalist. (6, 5)

13: Nonsense still produced illegally (9)

15: Total lack of enthusiasm for girlishness in Scotland? (9)

17: What models do when embraced by former Democrat leader - all is revealed (7)

18: OJ rants about USC football players (7)

20: Roman date and time that is in Latin (2,3)

22: Senator (IN) flip-flops on this clue and others? (5)

24: Child is to depart, finally (3)





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