Crossword for Tue, 2/Feb/2010

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Across
1: Processes, as oil

5: Belief system

7: Logic circuit element

9: Butlers' prompts

10: Rope fiber

11: Debussy's 'La ___'

12: Boondocks

13: Kind of returns

15: Coward

19: Foundation

21: Road surface

22: 'Play It ___, Sam'

23: Squeezebox

25: Attend

26: Whichever

27: Worse than cruel
Down
1: Pinot Noir or Merlot

2: Knocked one's socks off

3: Big shot

4: ___ Valley

5: Bugs

6: Animal in a pouch

7: Suitcase ID

8: Idol worshipper?

11: Like much of suburbia

14: Thousands of years

15: Football stat

16: Receptacle for the bones of the dead

17: Trachea branches

18: Element used in alloys

20: Home planet

24: Dauphin's denial




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