Crossword for Sun, 23/Dec/2007

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Across
1: Masseur's offering

5: Ousts

9: Betray

10: Tune

11: Cowardly, in slang

13: White-plumed bird

14: Wren relative

15: Completely committed

18: Point of view

20: Flabbergasted

22: St. Louis gridder

23: Betray

25: Large butterfly

26: Antiquity
Down
1: Board partner

2: More like Simon Legree

3: Set up, as a red carpet

4: Rim holder

5: Speak foolishly

6: Recreation

7: Comedy genre

8: Sidney Poitier title role

11: Gave up

12: Bad way to go

14: Lowest female voice

16: Folic acid

17: Storm omen

18: Tummy relief

19: Insulin regulates the amount of it in the blood

21: Baker's need

22: Crash into on purpose

24: The 'S' in CBS: Abbr.




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