Crossword for Tue, 18/Nov/2008

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Across
1: Gaping

6: Determined

8: Hidden drawback

9: Relating to law

10: Cajun dinner chaser, perhaps

12: Most sacred

13: Like a primer

14: Stuffed tubes

16: Oblong

20: Rubbernecked

22: Auto mechanics' jobs

23: Quelled concerns

24: Holds dear

25: Drug-yielding plants

26: Emolument

27: Coward
Down
2: They're left behind

3: Ticket abbr.

4: Conversion target

5: Betray

6: Earliest

7: Secret rendezvous

8: Scramble

9: Stonecrop

11: Blameworthiness

15: Salts containing element #53

17: With a reddish-brown tinge

18: Hybrid fuel

19: Finals

21: Filled with spontaneous emotion

22: Summarize

25: Finding one takes a 'hail' of an effort




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