Crossword for Wed, 8/Aug/2007

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Across
1: Leading kids in central Kentucky are going out after lunch to score. (4, 1, 4)

5: Shinny up and start to cut branch (5)

7: Pets lie about the letter. (7)

8: Tragic king smuggles the bondage material (7)

10: Devil gets a beating in Adelaide (5)

11: I may fall into pit in a remote country (9)

13: Almost admire Mr. Gore, a naval officer (7)

14: Arenas almost filling with the hooter (5)

15: Singers in a special Tosca production (5)

17: Lady hugging extremely old lumberjack (7)

20: Learning, obsessive student returns to shelf (9)

21: Transfixes the finger-tips (5)

23: Ruddy rare steak, say? (7)

24: Song describing rat in a place of calm and beauty (7)

25: English lead getting into the pants of guys (5)

26: They're hard to reconcile, Turkey Day displays featuring beef (9)
Down
1: Raise streamlined submarine stabilizers! (5)

2: Actor works on two dialects (5,8)

3: Crazy man grabs NY theater award? Literally, just the opposite! (7)

4: Knot a rope in the great out-of-doors (4-3)

5: Get less polite dupe welcoming English bum? (7)

6: Encrusted with crustaceans, with salt stripped out? (9)

8: True-blue pub changes at heart (5)

9: Swings needing repair by unknown stock gauge (4,4,5)

12: Tired Aussie died in an abattoir? (9)

16: The outbursts one hears are hers (7)

17: Comic embraces date at end of Fourth Dimension (5)

18: Outdoors running on a pier (4,3)

19: Threatened males got perfect scores (7)

22: You'll need them if you're rigging fights (5)




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