Crossword for Wed, 4/Jun/2008

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Across
1: Figure it can go to pieces (7)

4: Drunk stops to heave (7)

8: Hack gets brainwave to start with: ripen green veggie (7)

10: Little singer returned, following band to total a hairy little mother with seating for one. (7)

11: Coming back to see old friends, painfully rein in gut (9)

12: Call on Geller or a seductively beautiful woman (5)

14: The star of 'Ellen' has at folks with substandard morals (11)

16: Mere chance of depression interrupting peace (11)

19: Depart from low overhang (5)

21: Getting rid of joint pain (9)

23: Briefly sign first (7)

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

25: Remain distraught about initially rowdy sailor (7)

26: That woman has articles put in case (7)
Down
1: Madison's statue (5)

2: Consents to accepting decline in rates of change (9)

3: Poorer and more squalid, heading from south to north (7)

4: Half of them should have had an idea (7)

5: Indolence evident in Rowes Lothario (5)

6: Ships use up aid at sea; remain in a grave situation (4,2,7)

7: Thumb Drum? (3)

9: Rocks lure a breeding fish (4,9)

13: Embedded work in the French part of Yemen (5)

14: Transfer from Delaware to California (5)

15: Trim waist in figure (9)

17: Joker idled lazily among ring leaders (7)

18: Trainees' ads make TV (7)

20: Pervert stripped in mineral water (5)

22: Sister leaves, seeing torment of supernatural servant (5)

23: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)




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