Crossword for Mon, 9/Feb/2009

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Across
1: Kingdom very mountainous at first (5)

4: Strangely, some limbs suffer from blood clots. (9)

8: Some kind of a nut with a foot problem (5)

9: Article about reckless flogging (9)

11: Changed musician not so offensively pious (13)

12: Scrooge in film is erratic (5)

14: Get your paper here! Amphibious creature seizes steamship; a number dead (9)

16: Couple gain control of schooner, for example (3-6)

18: Prom couple steals crown from teen dress up (5)

20: Rocks lure a breeding fish (4,9)

23: What incompetent repairman says to beggar? (9)

24: Discipline the heartless and agonize endlessly (5)

25: Arranger of mere songs put in the shade (4,5)

26: Warren, they say, is yellow (5)
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2: A grain or a nut (5)

3: Closely follow nit in room facing east (7)

4: Perhaps men sit and eat in a cafe (9)

5: Romantic poet is close to Reagan (5)

6: The French boys' instructions (7)

7: Trim waist in figure (9)

8: Like powerful uncle in Indian state? (5)

10: Icy turning, for example, on top (5)

13: Migrating bass: known winter traveling hazard (9)

15: Eccentric team owner is behind the times (4-5)

16: Japanese Commander had no love in the morning to get stuck into things. (2, 3)

17: Diverting a dupe with wrong input (7)

18: Apparition in Hampton maze (7)

19: Oliver, and not Thomas, Hardy's monogram (5)

21: Small stones unfinished in cemetary plot (5)

22: Savings plan question starting to intrigue certain Middle Easterner (5)




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