Crossword for Fri, 24/Oct/2008

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Across
1: Not out of the question

6: Keeps secret

8: Birth

9: Droop

11: Where to find a browser

12: Not genuine

14: One who keeps dropping things

15: Party for sheep shearers?

19: Last word in a cerebral game

20: Replayed tennis point

22: Player's peg

23: Sites of some traffic delays

24: Single-masted sailing vessel

25: Forever

Down
1: Melonlike fruit

2: One who may take a tumble

3: BIRD

4: Court officer

5: Speaker's omission

6: Brooding type?

7: Brush aside

10: Medicinal root

13: Sorted alphabetically (like this puzzle's clues)

14: Soup served with sour cream

15: Cabbie's question

16: Pass imperceptibly from one shade to another

17: Show fear

18: Prohibited

21: Nice to nosh

23: Tango maneuver





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