Crossword for Wed, 9/Jan/2008

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Across
1: Bird gets an eminent man (5)

5: Both alternatives before artist in Pyrenees republic (7)

9: Aunt Peg really messed up the cheap seats (6,7)

10: Shortened lingerie test sexual attraction (9)

11: In conversation, lists charges (5)

12: Principal on top of leafy tree (5)

13: Nolte, in movie 'Emergency Room,' is one eating on the grass (9)

17: Coats need woven yarns (9)

18: Massage central skeleton for money (5)

20: A long way to go for a monomaniacal musician (5)

23: Unstained slip covers (9)

24: Travel - pioneering art form (13)

25: Spring inside proper old theatre (7)

26: Helga excels coming back with a two under par (5)
Down
1: Hot and sultry, stripping right in current (7)

2: Moderately amphibian, for example, by the middle of the creek (2,1,6)

3: He is round (grossly fed) (9)

4: Cabaret, nearly empty, takes prize (9)

5: A friend comes round to appease (5)

6: Drive carefully and live (5)

7: Re: bands, unfinished hymn, a type of poetry (5)

8: Chump getting past in chasm (5)

14: Tom Cruise playing an outfitter (9)

15: Cast light upon awfully tired aria (9)

16: Offering advice, King takes over one bit, zany initially (9)

19: Heart of delicatessen, certainly, is meat (7)

20: Witticism provided theme (5)

21: Courses finish with Decline and Fall (5)

22: Bit of a fight (5)

23: Contrarily accepted gold slab (5)




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