Crossword for Wed, 6/Feb/2013

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Across
1: Following behind

5: Department stores

9: Jock

10: Environmental subgroup

11: Mottled inlay material

13: Stage performers

15: 'Sure thing!'

16: Supplied

18: Strengthen

21: BIG DIPPER

22: Adult insects

24: 'Just think!'

26: Benedict Arnold's crime

27: Street girls
Down
1: Kitchen appliance

2: Receive by will?

3: Wrath

4: MAKEUP

5: Palindromic preposition

6: Academician

7: King and queen

8: Germfree state

12: Construction site creation

14: Mistaken

16: Retailer of plants and bouquets

17: Prescribe

19: Newspaper issue

20: Shelley's 'Ozymandius' and Milton's 'On His Blindness'

23: George W. Bush, to George H.W. Bush

25: Get ready for a fight




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