Crossword for Sat, 4/Feb/2012

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Across
1: A lot

4: Posted, in a way

9: Tactical advancements

10: Sports car option

11: Optical range

12: Tom and Sid, to Twain

13: Stage of advancement

17: Flabbergasted

19: Broke away

21: Hold in check

23: Unsophisticated

25: Kind of relations

26: Domicile

27: Church group
Down
1: Rich-girls-to-be

2: Accord

3: Big hit

4: Balance sheet positive

5: Sound of a fan

6: Starch used as a binder or thickener

7: Foamy pick-me-up

8: Knuckleheads

12: Part of CBS

14: Sacked

15: Aristotle's 'best provision for old age'

16: Aroused again

18: Family man

19: From the nearest star

20: Monks' hooded garments

21: Social system sector

22: Gets closer to

24: Lurid




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