Crossword for Sun, 27/Jan/2008

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Across
1: Understanding

7: Emolument

8: Roundabout expression

11: Shaped like Earth

13: ___ de menthe

14: Uniform adornment

16: Does over, as a manuscript

17: Read in

18: Fits

20: Underground vault

21: Marx/Engels creation

23: Like some memories

25: End of some URLs

26: One who keeps dropping things

Down
1: Comeback

2: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

3: Rodeo competitor

4: Vehicle at a drive-in movie

5: Kick out

6: Rots

9: Dance or music program

10: Stage of advancement

12: Gave a ticket to

15: Half-moon shape

16: Harbinger of spring

17: Ship's hospital

19: Parasites

21: Billiards shot

22: Dorm furnishing

24: Yuletide worker





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