Crossword for Fri, 20/Mar/2009

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Across
1: Reddish clay

4: Stuffed tubes

8: Horrendous

9: Sent a message the old-fashioned way

10: Gift on the first day

13: Opium room

14: Exists

15: Routs, in sports

16: Perfect

19: Court proceeding

21: Perjure oneself

22: They're often amusing

23: Romantic's counterpart

24: Place for bric-a-brac

27: Knots up

28: Y chromosome carriers

Down
1: Complex type

2: ''Cover ___ Face'' (P.D. James mystery)

3: Ring or rink figure

4: Pond creator

5: Like the cruel meteorologist

6: Hazarding a guess: cabbie who gets under your skin?

7: Starts a paragraph, in a way

9: Years of youth

11: Ringing

12: It'll hold a place for you

16: Broaden

17: Put into effect

18: Music sources

20: Flat fillers

25: It's twisted in a hammerlock

26: Sargasso Sea spawner





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