Crossword for Thu, 1/Mar/2012

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Across
1: Bull session participant?

5: Elementary science?

9: Closeness

10: Most embarrassed

11: Egg protein

13: Tuckers out

15: Place for a witness

17: Ideas, suggestions, etc.

20: Sorrow

21: Seasoned type

22: Skin pigment

24: Party for sheep shearers?

25: Abandon hope

26: Adroitness in using the hands

Down
1: Parade figure

2: Hazarding a guess: cabbie who gets under your skin?

3: Circumnavigator on the Golden Hind

4: Democratic party symbol, once

5: Living creatures

6: Paper carrier?

7: Geological span

8: Hanker (for)

12: Example of polluted politics

14: Crab Nebula origins

16: About half a month

18: Honeycreeper's relative

19: Reproductive cells

21: Lacking life

23: Subject, or his lord

24: 'Because it ___ there'





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