Crossword for Tue, 6/Nov/2012

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Across
1: Ed goes in cleaner place for Sleepy (7)

5: Art and Fred, horsing around, draw up new plan (7)

9: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

10: Check strong drink of 22-acrosss bold alter ego (5,6)

11: The color of a letter from Greece with purple edges (5)

12: Land and take off: beginning of flight (5)

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

14: Fine legs confused emotions (5,8)

20: Agreeable to taking in Eastern relative (5)

21: Ordered hoop to conserve mass and energy (5)

23: Exegesis of clue an idiot misunderstood (11)

24: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

25: Shes said to be funambulists best friend (7)

26: Grant again drew one crookedly (7)
Down
1: About fifty-one complaints - they're thought to be true (7)

2: How might number mine something? (5)

3: Sob wildly and preserve secret (7)

4: Mum gets customers some guns (7)

5: Blabbermouth a little later on is noisy, venomous creature (7)

6: D*** petrol pump sample? (7)

7: Not clear but large; you ring us after the morning (9)

8: Settler-constructed bridge (7)

13: Turn over extra-strange IRS filing (3,6)

14: African president to supply workforce with New Deal? (7)

15: Scheduled tilt with person in single combat (7)

16: Mid-East region is a metier confused (7)

17: More nutty British can promenade by the sea (7)

18: Candidate has no time for ease, apparently (7)

19: Non-professional laggard goes underground (4,3)

22: Keep firm about the ring (5)




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