Crossword for Wed, 25/Jan/2012

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Across
1: Fan

5: All thumbs

9: Heartache

10: Knights' aides

11: Serve the usual to the usuals?

12: Sanction

13: Anti-war campaigns, e.g.

15: Sphere

16: Vehicle at a drive-in movie

17: Stone propeller

20: Carve up

22: Painkiller

24: What plots may do

25: Corrupt morally

27: Longed

28: Bottomless pits

Down
1: ''Dear old'' fellow

2: Card player's headwear, perhaps

3: Reading material

4: Essex, e.g.

5: Refrain

6: Thumbscrew ridge

7: Starch used as a binder or thickener

8: Free-for-all

11: Boondocks

13: And enjoy a ___

14: Certain student

18: Solemnly recited

19: __ Moses

21: Show as similar

23: ___ truly

26: Suffers from





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