Crossword for Wed, 24/Dec/2008

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Across
1: Like obvious type

6: Not on all fours

9: Quicker with quips

10: Sudden urge

11: Wrongdoer's bane

13: Beau

14: Superman who was a super man

15: Aesop's lesson

18: Brewers' needs

21: Professionals who might get your back up?

23: Caesar salad ingredient

24: Social standing

25: Use a soapbox

26: Water conveyance
Down
2: Cell element

3: Waste little by little

4: Varlet

5: Ace in the hole business?

6: Capacitate

7: Magnify

8: One side of the generation gap, often

9: Internet address letters

12: Bulldozers, e.g.

13: Bony-plated beast

16: Ravioli filling

17: Free time

19: Kudos

20: Stamp out

22: George W. Bush, to George H.W. Bush

24: Match, in poker




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