Crossword for Sun, 14/Dec/2008

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Across
1: What a Geiger counter measures

5: States of elation

8: Cowardly, in slang

10: Untamed

11: Bold outlaw

13: Wedding page word

15: University board members

16: Ring toss item?

17: Wrap up

18: Subtleties

19: Campaigned for office

20: Gift on the first day

21: Total before deductions

23: Flowering shrub of the four-o'clock family

26: Pollster's detection

27: Apparitions

Down
1: Piano man Charles

2: Sorrow

3: Coral reef

4: Diddly-squat

5: They're loaded

6: 17-Across protagonist

7: Steps within a computer program

9: VIP protector

10: Its arch might be plain or tented

12: Para-aminobenzoic acid, e.g.

14: Not that bad

15: Cheat

21: Figurative albatross with a golden sound?

22: Earthenware

24: Cleo's doom

25: Donkey's cousin





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