Crossword for Sun, 8/Feb/2009

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Across
1: Cause to blush

6: Three, so it's said

9: Press too close to

10: Irritates

11: Peyton Manning target

12: Ally

14: Swell up

15: Pitfall!

16: Like some snakes

19: Do some editing

20: Gaping

21: Furnish with weapons

23: Lifeguard

25: Like some college walls

26: 'Three on a ___' (1932 Bette Davis melodrama)

27: Bilko and Pepper
Down
1: One in charge of a roast?

2: Red Cross vehicle

3: Carmine

4: Scuba, e.g.

5: Walter Reed, e.g.

6: Where Tris Speaker performed

7: Black gold

8: Pounce (upon)

12: Morning aftertaste

13: Sorted alphabetically (like this puzzle's clues)

16: Write code

17: Bodies of work

18: Master of a research discipline

22: Dorian and aeolian, for two

24: Movie backdrop

25: Rage




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