Crossword for Wed, 10/Oct/2012

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Across
1: OPEC measure

3: Formulaic writing

9: Entourage member, sometimes

10: Away from the office

11: Watch

12: Storage medium

14: They're hot

15: One-liner expert

19: Place of excess

20: Untamed

22: Sailor, in slang

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

25: Fashionable canine?

26: Moronic intro?
Down
1: Toed the line

2: Telling fibs

3: Metabolism descriptor

4: Columbia, e.g.

5: Shows clearly

6: Hardly fine literature

7: Scent spreaders

8: Lays to rest

12: Ed's pile

13: Do a verbal tap dance

14: Object on a basketball court

15: Readily forged kind of iron

16: University environment

17: Josh

18: 'Horsefeathers!'

20: Natural talent

21: Endangered mammal

24: Absorb, as a loss




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