Crossword for Mon, 24/Dec/2007

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Across
1: Sondheim/Styne musical

4: Inhabited

8: Ticket word

9: Luxury locale?

10: Relinquish office

12: Fists, slangily

13: Adviser

14: Alternatives to mobile phones

16: Photo ___ (campaign activities)

17: Burgundy, in Burgundy

18: A committee may reach it

21: Rock star's faithful

22: Stares in wonder

23: Subdues

24: Not tip-top

25: Iron ___ (rust)

26: Railings

27: Aesop fable lesson

Down
1: Like many stump speeches

2: Peter, Peter's diet

3: Legendary Himalayan creatures

4: Louisiana's state bird

5: Cork propellers

6: Natural magnet

7: Steamed Mexican dish

11: Mottled inlay material

15: Polyglots

17: A or C

18: Spy movie poison

19: Seasonal debris

20: More foolish

22: Stable worker





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