Crossword for Sun, 18/Apr/2010

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Across
1: Gardeners' repositories

4: Real

8: Ornaments that resemble diamonds

9: Blob of used gum

10: Roundabout expression

13: Before, for a bard

15: Send money

16: Ottomans, e.g.

17: Dive that involves touching the toes

19: Down on one's luck

21: Brooding type?

22: Artists' buys

24: Finder's charge

25: Sorted alphabetically (like this puzzle's clues)

27: Cold War weapon

28: Pepys kept one
Down
1: Subway rider's grip

2: Witticism

3: Promotional lotteries

4: Like some memos

5: Heavy measure

6: Tom and Sid, to Twain

7: Rotter

11: Thing that conceals

12: Jumping-off place?

14: Piece with a purpose

15: Oriental title

18: Soldier's flask

20: Racy stuff

23: Like the beach

24: Not masc.

26: Massachusetts' state tree




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