Crossword for Wed, 8/Feb/2012

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Across
1: A group of notes! (7)

5: When one should be expecting a suitable partner (3,4)

8: Gulf expressed in certain letters (5)

9: Animal or container in tree (9)

11: Bundy under English seabird thats forever! (7)

13: The cow may do this in the local veterinary yard (5)

14: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)

15: Mend a split state (11)

18: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

19: Anyway - no! (3)

20: Slip in terror (5)

21: New Testament stories about gifts (7)

23: 16-down cousin waves at gorilla (9)

24: Wooded hillock forming part of Arthur's territory (5)

25: Break down door with your visitor to Oz (7)

26: Turk's seat (7)
Down
1: Part of speech idealists rebuke (5)

2: Bird dog devouring bad lad (4,5)

3: Perform part of play (3)

4: Cooped up in Essex: pelicans, it would turn out (5)

5: Incorrectly read pitch for a song (4,5)

6: One later enters, like, with matching sides (11)

7: Poem about social worker left with grace (9)

10: Frost to cover the cake (3)

12: Playwright rethinking copyright wrangle (4,7)

14: Convertible has odd bar in instrument panel (9)

16: Plain grim? (3,6)

17: Study a French instrument - it's a puzzle (9)

20: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

21: Trunk and tangled roots (5)

22: A chair may be material (5)

24: Pate topping primarily honey and tamari? (3)




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