Crossword for Tue, 2/Oct/2012

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Across
1: Scrooge's exclamation

3: September honoree

8: Input for a recorder

10: Looked depressed

11: Showing strong feelings

12: More obdurate

15: Lets off the hook

17: Quantity on which a math operation is performed

18: Funny fare

19: Dogged

22: Evildoer

24: The story of my life?

26: Carpenters visit them

27: Gobble, down or gobble down
Down
1: Pleasingly plump

2: Stereo plug-in

3: Travel aimlessly

4: Single-handedly

5: Protestant Church position

6: Showing self-restraint

7: Vine supports

9: Pin in some splits

12: Deficiency (and an alternate title for this puzzle)

13: Easily angered

14: X-ray science

16: New convert

20: Kook

21: More certain

23: 'Savvy?'

25: Faux follower




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