Crossword for Thu, 23/Oct/2008

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Across
1: Realm of Morpheus

6: Evildoer

9: Short musical composition

10: Hi-fi systems

11: Rehearsal

14: Debussy's 'La ___'

15: Cut back

16: Dazzled

17: Emulates Waldo Pepper

18: Knobby

20: Used a spade

21: First choices

22: San Diego Chicken et al.

25: Sneaky yellowbelly

26: Bridge position

27: Takeoff experts
Down
2: Like God

3: Peak peak

4: Tap output

5: Free-for-all

6: Finder's charge

7: Before, in sonnets

8: Wanted

9: Black-headed gull

12: Takes back

13: Salon stylist

14: Like much of suburbia

17: Belly

19: Supplied medicine to

23: Churchill's title

24: Chimpanzee's hoot

25: Morse code component




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