Crossword for Wed, 21/Mar/2007

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Across
1: Do a verbal tap dance

6: Crow inducer

9: Squirrel (away)

10: Format for some DVDs

11: Colorful socks

12: Quill accompanier

13: Spaced-out, say

14: Seesaw pivot

17: Glowing

19: Game catch

20: Bewitching

22: Divine

23: New convert

25: Dostoyevsky novel, with 'The'

26: Foil alternatives

27: Infamy
Down
1: Treacherous

2: Woolgatherer

3: Like secondhand smoke

4: Packs, as cotton or hay

5: End a hunger strike

6: Puma, e.g.

7: Chemically inert

8: CRT dot

12: Yacht stop, perhaps

14: Slight

15: Risky whiskey

16: Without fidgeting

18: Camilla's title

19: Scottie, e.g.

20: See 52-Across

21: Garden statue with a pointy hat

22: Admiral's command

24: Matsuyama money




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