Crossword for Tue, 15/Dec/2009

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Across
1: Steady customer

5: Seem to be gold, perhaps

9: Water balloon impact sound

10: Earthly

11: Understanding

12: Example of polluted politics

15: Palindromic preposition

16: The 'S' in CBS: Abbr.

17: Heat-of-the-moment determiner

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

22: Belly

23: Be a ham

25: 'The ___ are these, 'It might have been'' (Whittier)

26: Stores on the farm
Down
1: Platform for public speaking

2: Hoedown honey

3: Unvarnished

4: Tendency to be reserved

5: Stuff

6: Romaine alternative

7: Doctor's specialty

8: Flower-shaped decoration

13: Driver's panel

14: Nearness

16: Hi-fi systems

17: Take in a wagon

18: Damsels

19: Magazine buyers

21: Let on

24: Temple student




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