Crossword for Sun, 7/Feb/2010

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Across
1: Spar part

4: Apparent

7: Indolent individual

9: Exchange high-fives, e.g.

11: Not clear

12: Storyteller

13: Artillery assault

15: Respectful title in Raipur

17: Wine grape

18: Workers' compensations

19: They're not straight up

22: Cinco de Mayo events

24: Mischievous type

25: Exaggerate

26: Wild duck

27: Kind of support
Down
1: Cowardly, in slang

2: Makes a lot out of a building?

3: Holiday pie choice

4: Face protection

5: Modern writers' aids

6: State impulsively, with 'out'

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

10: Mottled inlay material

14: Some hip-hop

15: Formality

16: Bleacher creature?

20: Blacksmith's block

21: Lay into

23: Lunchroom stack




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