Crossword for Tue, 4/Dec/2007

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Across
1: Demonstrated the way in which to keep poles apart (5)

4: Defender is the one admitting to moving goalpost (9)

8: Monarch met monarch in even open space for coin-operated machines (7,6)

10: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

12: Inspects old radical for a moment (5, 6)

13: Drank up in station (5)

15: Halest hesitater is lost (9)

17: Dressing of malt and beans to make horse tender (9)

18: Identifies men as displaced - best not to be one at 34's (5)

19: Ruby ran off to marry after a couple of events came to light again (11)

22: Odds of niece being born (3)

23: Dangerous undertaking skiers in busy S bend (5,8)

25: Some doctors oust head of Johnson and Johnson? (9)

26: Painting surface covered in stages sometimes (5)
Down
2: Crew member is one in operating room (3)

3: Transfixes the finger-tips (5)

4: Orange lipstick shows spirit (5)

5: Spend too much time on the track where powerlines are frequently found. (4-5)

6: Stuffed 05 before a 10 (9)

7: Dyslexic's tired and distressed (5)

8: Softly, French author questions socially correct behavior (2,3,2)

9: Guy tails Rod's agent (9)

11: European arrangement between the French and the German (9)

14: If forced, see idle TV broadcast (9)

15: Greeting South-East Asian from Tibet? (9)

16: They try canopies (7)

19: One who gets up part of stairway (5)

20: Quietly pulls electrical connectors (5)

21: 19-across, perhaps, bites indeed (5)

24: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)




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