Crossword for Sat, 29/Dec/2007

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Across
1: Can opener?

3: Ace in the hole business?

8: Tear to pieces

10: Rascal

11: One who keeps dropping things

12: Plague swarm

15: Flow forth

16: Like some breezes

17: They cause people to be on shaky ground

18: Insincere ladies' men

22: It's right under your nose

23: Butlers' prompts

25: Rider on a crowded subway car

26: Beetle juice?
Down
1: Confuse

2: Begets

3: Resided

4: Fill (with)

5: Competitive edge

6: Three-horned dinosaur

7: Take back due to nonpayment

9: Think quietly and inwardly

11: Effusively friendly person

12: Legal outs

13: Derek Jeter, notably

14: Showed scorn

19: In the midst of

20: Briquette, eventually

21: Topples from power

24: Timber unit




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