Crossword for Thu, 20/Aug/2009

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Across
2: Second-stringer

9: Animal in a pouch

10: Smart guy

11: Dragonfly larva

13: Like baby rabbits

14: Surgery is rarely recommended for it these days

17: Part of SSS

19: Undercover worker

20: Ringing

21: Indistinguishable

25: Sorrow

26: It's a drag on a gown

27: Addition

29: Fashionable canine?

Down
1: Mica, shale, and butcher block

2: Block passage through

3: Less well-behaved

4: Greets

5: Swamp danger

6: Intended

7: Superman who was a super man

8: Accepts uncomplainingly

12: Long green

15: 1968 Diana Ross and the Supremes hit

16: Most reliable

17: Slow critter

18: Soaked through and through

21: IV part

22: Represent onstage

23: On pins and needles

24: Filthy stuff?

28: Van Gogh's love offering





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