Crossword for Mon, 25/Oct/2010

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Across
2: Alongside

5: Send, as payment

8: Deeply expressive

9: Endue

10: Show the ropes

11: Cure-all

13: BIG DIPPER

15: Flabbergasted

19: A dilapidated house, e.g.

21: Concise in speech

22: Attacks

24: It's contracted

25: It's good when common

26: Hankered for
Down
1: Sixth of seven canonical hours

2: A jab well done

3: Forbore

4: Minor malady

5: Mature

6: Kitten's cry

7: Part of ATV

9: Push out

12: Small potatoes

14: Benevolent, in a way

15: Stickers on neckwear?

16: Virginia dances

17: Counts

18: Sheathed

20: Jukebox choice

23: Florist's vehicle, perhaps




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