Crossword for Wed, 10/Dec/2008

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Across
1: Semi hazard

6: Pick up the check

9: Block passage through

10: It'll hold a place for you

11: Word with worm or moth

12: Finch

14: Brooding type?

15: It'll give you a lift

17: Unending

19: Commuter's option

20: 1980s demographic group

22: All wet

24: Don't invite them!

25: Dyer's tub

26: Comes down hard

27: Gathered
Down
1: Lewis Carroll poem

2: 'Laugh-In' comedienne Judy

3: Hair protein

4: False

5: Viscounts' superiors

6: Woe

7: Changes residency in a big way

8: Half a score

13: Compassionate

14: Stereo plug-in

16: Bad language

18: Food

19: Open up, as a flower

21: Brown pigment

23: Hammer for a court justice

24: Go down




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