Crossword for Fri, 16/Mar/2012

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Across
1: Sharp and stimulating

3: Undercover worker

5: Start the match

8: Nonsense

10: Fathom, for example

11: Batman foe Poison ___

12: Naturally occurring potassium nitrate

14: Speed meas.

15: They can be deceiving

17: Marine, or impediment for Dracula?

18: Shade tree

20: High-tech industry

22: Goof up

23: First synthetic fiber

24: About ninety days

25: Takes to the prom, e.g.

26: May celebrant

27: Lab jobs
Down
1: Type of pool

2: Floors

3: Don't invite them!

4: Jabber

5: Distract from the main subject

6: Understanding

7: Community character

9: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

13: Solar system model

15: Followers

16: Some hats

19: Healed

21: Wield

24: Highlander's cap




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