Crossword for Tue, 1/Dec/2009

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Across
1: Sure-footed animal

3: Broadcasts a 1937 Cary Grant film?

8: 'Impressive!'

9: It can't be cloned

11: Possible relative

12: Muesli morsel

13: What may be followed by improved service?

14: Certain researcher

15: Concrete wall segment

19: Scratch follower

20: Pied Piper devotee

21: 'Fiddlesticks!'

24: Pregnancy division

25: Well-produced commodity?

26: Free-for-all

27: Craving
Down
1: Rand McNally work

2: Earliest

3: Term of respect in colonial India

4: Like lighthouses

5: Calmed down

6: Fanner of feathers

7: Left orbit

10: Desolated

13: Injured by tearing

14: Ultimate loss leader

16: Blockheads

17: Washroom fixture

18: Production excess

19: Patterned fabric

22: Stag

23: Parachute material




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