No 9555, Wednesday, 10 Jun 09, Nita Jaggi

I repeat what I wrote at the Orkut Community "OURS IS NOT TO REASON WHY, OURS IS BUT TO DO AND CRY"
ACROSS
 1 - Structures of trucks (4) - RIGS [DD]
 9 - Convert the blurred ‘n’ artless philosopher (8,7) - BERTRAND RUSSELL*
10 - Prohibition to hold Rex in the farm building (4) - BA{R}N
11 - Stark appearance to suit a relative (5) - {G}{AUNT}
12 - Each on the borders of Texas takes a meal (4) - {EA}{T(-exa)S}
13 - Mattresses covering fifty stringing objects (5) - BE{A}DS
14 - Resort has it back, almost all pertaining to an area (7) - {SPA}{TI<-}AL(-l)
16 - An aversion for everything the Cockney girl has for the heartless gay (7) - {ALL}(-h)ER{G(-a)Y}
18 - Polite citizen? (5) - CIVIL [DD]
22 - Neat sort of a volcano (4) - ETNA*
23 - Sailor holds one Asian leader’s crown (5) - T{I}AR{A}
24 - No inside worker will complain (4) - MOAN Annotation pending
25 - A consort invites a disturbed supporter of the natural world (15) - CONSERVATIONIST*
26 - Oddly, anger ends in a want (4) - NEED [T]
DOWN
 2 - Concentrated at home, nets are displayed to Elizabeth (7) - IN{TENS*}{E}
 3 - Absurd joke used as doggy gas is released on the politician (6,3,5) - SHAGGY DOG S*{TORY} How I became H, I don't know
 4 - Switch the race (5) - RELAY [DD]
 5 - Smell of a bishop in an ancient city (5) - {ODO}{UR}
 6 - Limit a cop until the failure of an operation (14) - MULTIPLICATION*
 7 - Appearance of large cats covering the gym (6) - AS{PE}CTS*
 8 - Philosopher discussed the stable phase (7) - PLATEAU (~plato)
15 - Military unit on top is confused holding Louisiana (7) - P{LA}TOON*
17 - Pass by the Spanish resort taken up by an English (6) - EL{APS<-}{E}
19 - Great in size to throw into water when knight is in place of the king (7) - IMME(-r+n)NSE
20 - Scholar, is a character of the language (5) - MA{SAI*}
21 - The kind of an increase a wage earner needs (5) - RAISE [CD]