Crossword for Wed, 19/Dec/2007

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Across
1: Stratagems

5: Common gallinule

9: Holiday pie choice

10: Pats a baby on the back

11: Garden tool

12: Talk

14: More prudent

16: Carrier of soldiers

18: Easily offended

19: Like the face of El Capitan

21: It's between the shin and the foot

23: Whichever

24: Pea pest

26: Marx/Engels creation

28: Gardener

29: Jeff Foxworthy target
Down
1: Indian axes

2: Craft entered gingerly

3: Hot temper

4: Gardeners' repositories

5: Something that might give you a beating?

6: Eyeball

7: Good luck bringer?

8: Like some passages

12: Texas tea tower

13: Comeback

15: Certain layabout

16: Clan members

17: Nonsense

20: Letting on water

22: More than a franchisee

23: Path to the altar

25: Lower, as lights

27: Supplied




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