Crossword for Fri, 7/Nov/2008

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Across
1: Penniless meal is fantastic (5)

4: Freezing - with nothing on top? (5,4)

9: Circus performer in a European big top (7)

10: A letter from Greece - about a sort of April flower (7)

11: Crippled boy takes me in (5)

13: Essays about old dramatic works (9)

14: Hellish painter spoke piffle (5)

16: Washy idea about refuges (9)

17: Radical Ulster reb is boastful windbag (9)

18: Airborne without a trace of fear, reclining in plane (5)

20: Electrical units losing energy . . . and . . . and . . . (9)

21: An Indian princess fled east repeatedly (5)

22: Ancient history part is excessively trimmed (7)

23: Grass present round container (7)

25: Kept definitely in step (9)

26: Englishman opening a can to dine at home (3,2)
Down
2: Standard style of music rejected (3)

3: Zealous police action captures leader of blackmailers (5)

4: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)

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

6: There's very little we back completely in status symbol (9)

7: Exegesis of clue an idiot misunderstood (11)

8: Aboard a ship is shipping magnate (7)

9: Unscripted part for head librarian (2,3)

12: 7-down relic? (6,5)

15: To get out three bunnies? (9)

16: From now on it's heaven (9)

17: Confirm what Goldilocks discovered (4,3)

19: De Bergerac hugged bird on return (5)

21: Eights had to race again, we hear, concerning fish spawn. (2, 3)

23: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)

24: Picture a dessert without topping (3)




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