Crossword for Tue, 25/Sep/2012

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Across
2: Some traffic tie-ups

8: Thoroughbred, or Dracula's obsession?

10: Brown-___ (sycophant)

11: Corrupt morally

12: Homesteader

14: Prove useful to

15: Passed on

17: Winter coat features

18: Special talent

19: Straight shot

22: Smith and Jones, maybe

24: Peasant

25: Apparent

26: Marine
Down
1: Sealed a package

2: Loon

3: Legal outs

4: Michelangelo's 'David,' and others

5: BIG DIPPER

6: Rope ingredient, perhaps

7: Game bird

9: Flowering shrub of the four-o'clock family

13: They start behind the line

15: Telescope type

16: Comparison standard

20: Sweet'N Low alternative

21: Geological span

23: Minutes taker, perhaps




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