Crossword for Wed, 16/Dec/2009

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Across
1: Jeans fabric

4: Infamy

8: Animal in a pouch

9: Bumbling

10: Golf range surface

11: Trims

14: Ridiculous acts

16: Early American crop

17: Word before box or savant

18: Needed

19: Ship-to-shore connection

21: '___ to Remember' ('The Fantasticks' classic)

22: Value highly

23: Came first

25: Vine supports

26: Hi-fi equipment

Down
1: Kind of returns

2: Easter preceder?

3: Peak peak

4: Water sprite

5: TV shows, e.g.

6: Lightning

7: In the time left

10: Rich guy, or friend of Gilligan

12: Expostulatory

13: Excellent speaker

15: 29-Down fears them

20: March fliers

22: Set as rivals

24: Barbie's ex-beau





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