Crossword for Tue, 14/Dec/2010

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Across
1: Whiskered pooch

5: Trail mix ingredient

8: Manhattan Project element

10: Back to zero, perhaps

11: Dangerous cats

12: O. Henry's forte

13: Deli roll

14: Bacon and others

16: Chief point

20: Bristles

21: Prankster

22: Ballroom dance

23: Town employee of yore

24: Vehicle on Boston's Green Line

26: Country bumpkin

27: Forever
Down
1: Weaken

2: Kind of figure

3: Oddity

4: What's left

5: Superficial

6: Speculative

7: Conflicting flavors

9: Magazine edition

11: 'O frabjous day!' source

15: Like 'Billionaires for Bush'

17: Sharp nullifier

18: Dead end

19: Long-term convict

20: Tons in a Tennessee Ernie Ford song

21: Aperture

25: Beam of light




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