Crossword for Tue, 2/Sep/2008

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Across
1: Daydreaming

9: Uniform adornment

10: One, for lithium

11: Court maneuver

12: Stand

14: Allow to leave

15: Medical test control substance

16: Tipsy

18: Scottie, e.g.

21: What 'bottom's up' is to 'pub's motto'

23: Wailing

24: Intensify

26: Visible to the audience

27: One who keeps dropping things

Down
1: Brandished

2: Seed holders

3: Loafer

4: Snickers

5: Completely surround

6: Hardly hale

7: Spirit in a bottle

8: FCC flouter Howard

13: Presiding officer

17: Convention's choice

18: Spoof

19: Sincerely flatter?

20: Fall back

21: Smart guy

22: Improvise

25: Dyer's tub





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