Crossword for Fri, 4/Feb/2011

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Across
1: Evita, for example, making false claim about American (7)

5: Something one has to face: We're boy crazy! (7)

9: Dine out and stop being vague (13)

10: Teen unclothes poorly dressed diners (13)

13: Relative takes funny pose on glass bridge? (9)

15: Siphon windy painter? (5)

16: Hazardous emanation from river used by a crime boss (5)

18: Stranger, in turn, had an accident (3-3-3)

21: Repeated note to help player? (6-7)

23: Rise as in throw, perhaps, showing fitness to fly (13)

25: Former color no longer in production? (7)

26: Proper wordplay describing actress Moreno (7)
Down
2: South of France, an African country (5)

3: Curious, one bowl holds heroin for compensation (5-2)

4: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

5: Curse the watcher hiding terrible evil within. (3)

6: Raised the former Mr. Gore and Mr. Kennedy (7)

7: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

8: Stupidly sits in ice, snow with Packers fans? (13)

9: End inner-value conversion in UK taxes (6,7)

11: Nothing we have to pay (3)

12: A rugs fashionable and rather sweet (5)

14: Rooted in regressive muddleheaded isolation (5)

17: Gingrich said Reagan should not be charged. (7)

18: Last offer (4,3)

19: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

20: Nits are possibly more unpleasant (7)

22: Powerless to move, as shiner tremendously shows (5)

23: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

24: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)




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