Crossword for Mon, 7/Dec/2009

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Across
1: Incandescent silver base (5)

4: I bang rock, disturbing snake (4,5)

9: Damn turncoat left country (9)

10: Slacker is riled, unfortunately (5)

11: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

12: Choose to take the top off (3)

14: Location of cheating, fiercer gender (4,9)

17: Unfortunate rot in republic is everlasting (13)

20: Fiction position (3)

21: Leaving firm when dating (5,6)

23: German overwhelmed by naked touch (5)

24: Fake disability after fifty (9)

25: Large strumpets turned a trick? (9)

26: Edges of seasides (5).

Down
1: Singers in a special Tosca production (5)

2: British poet associated with gravity is having a merry time (7)

3: Real white, strangely, having more green? (9)

5: Having a specialized tax status, the result of a visit to an amateur tailor? (9)

6: Part of speech idealists rebuke (5)

7: Windbag has nothing on after dance? (7)

8: Rita Mears breaks wind near a plane (9)

13: Gets high by direct routes? (9)

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

16: Last brute buckles under counter arguments (9)

18: The last theologian inside to burn the cheese (7)

19: No, I save up for escape (7)

21: and 15 Novel alternative excised from huge spits (5,12)

22: Pulls Americans (5)





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