Crossword for Wed, 20/May/2009

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Across
1: Poem with a jubjub bird and a tumtum tree

6: Hippie's home

8: Not kosher

9: Curtain adornments

10: Pre-op inhalant, once

11: 'To love __ is the beginning of a lifelong romance': Wilde

12: Like dime novels

15: Long lead-in

16: Nile biter

18: Entourage member, sometimes

20: On its way, after 'in'

22: Captures

24: More circumspect

25: Friend of Fossey

26: Golf situation

27: SPRING
Down
1: Electricity, slangily

2: You'll probably find one at a five-star hotel

3: Raring to go

4: Cardiff residents

5: Beatles classic

6: Come before

7: Estrange

9: Russian carriages

12: Of use

13: Progress obstacle

14: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, for one

17: Mollify

19: Rorschach pattern

21: Start the business day, perhaps

22: Unseated

23: Flight unit




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