Crossword for Sat, 15/Mar/2014

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Across
1: Message carriers

6: Office copy, commonly

9: Milquetoasts

10: Roman commander

11: Man of means

13: Stalls on the road, in a way

14: ___-relief sculpture

16: State of needing a drink

19: Street urchin

20: Holiday veggie

21: Express audibly

23: Tuck away

24: Glass-half-empty type

25: Sanction

27: Tree exudation

28: Tapes
Down
2: Crook's escape

3: Inflation cause?

4: Pizza toppings

5: Hearing, e.g.

6: Theodore Roosevelt's group

7: Stamp collecting

8: Sow sounds

9: Blatherskite

12: 'Fiddlesticks!'

15: Takeoff experts

17: Some heels

18: One way or another

21: Snake, literally and figuratively

22: Of the hipbone

25: Malt beverage

26: Pardon, with 'off'




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