Crossword for Wed, 5/Nov/2008

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Across
1: Beat writer's collaborator briefly drank (5)

4: Carol keeps cool Austrian coin (9)

8: Followers shown uprising in some unit erection (7)

9: Great praise for the accountant with demand. (7)

11: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

12: Stuff used to make soup with apples - it's boiled (5-4)

14: Ways of approaching a goddess without middlemen? (7)

15: Go over the same ground? (7)

17: Vice exploits body cavities (7)

19: Lament the first person heard in good judgment (4,3)

20: Does it take two groups at the pole to produce birds? (4,5)

22: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

23: The king did not stand for it when he heard that he ogles her. (4, 3)

24: Indict a sprinkling of reporters? (7)

25: Bluff included in reckless dare in ivy league college (9)

26: Values of 100 missing from boxes (5)
Down
1: 3-down said Sir, I have these! (5,4,4)

2: Leaf in fancy plate (5)

3: Giant reptiles make a racket and love southern gold, but principally really stink! (9)

4: Hear Native American appeal (3)

5: Overcome by disappointment from the rare bonk going awry (11)

6: Cruel to waste money (5)

7: Part of American's eerie pronouncement after a miracle (1,3,3)

10: Fine legs confused emotions (5,8)

13: Missed hoax set up to trap Sunday drunk outside saloon entrance (4,5,2)

16: Surer rate confused Washington money maker (9)

18: Dragging endless returns from a tightwad (7)

21: Arenas almost filling with the hooter (5)

22: Muhammad's first of the desirable ones (1-4)

24: Number One in facetiousness (3)




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