Crossword for Sun, 13/Dec/2009

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Across
1: Looked depressed

3: In a stupor

8: Kind of returns

10: Blossom visitor

11: Migratory tribesman

13: Wicket defender, in cricket

15: Varnish ingredient

16: Robot's lack

17: Primitive timepiece

18: Fraternity letter, perhaps

20: Make, as dinner

21: Endow with a gift

22: Yuletide worker

24: Climber's goal

26: Leadfoot

27: Time, according to Benjamin Franklin

Down
1: When some exams are scheduled

2: Place for thieves

3: Evaluated for robbing

4: Ends of vertebral columns

5: Hardly generous

6: Lincoln loc.

7: Disinfect

9: Tiny

12: Initially embroidered

14: Holiday dessert choice

16: Yuri Gagarin's SK-1, e.g.

17: Unfortunate

19: Homicide detective's request

21: Keypad key

23: Mortgage points, e.g.

25: Distinctive doctrine





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