Crossword for Sun, 22/Apr/2007

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Across
1: Foals' fathers

4: Shore

7: Nile cobra

8: Like God

11: Dress with care

12: Former ironer?

13: Small, decorative writing desk

15: Sis or bro

17: Part of DOS: Abbr.

18: Out of touch with reality

19: Sympathetic supporters

22: Chocolate substitute

23: Street urchin

24: Put up preserves

25: Went a-courting, perhaps

26: Country towers

Down
1: Dairy sound

2: Some stays

3: Stage of advancement

4: 'I don't see it'

5: Brain picking?

6: Zealous

9: Modern writers' aids

10: '___ up to you'

14: Persecuted

15: Exposing human folly to ridicule

16: Some acrobatic feats

19: Pet store purchases

20: Kook

21: Hit the slopes





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