Crossword for Sun, 16/Sep/2012

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Across
1: Inspire

4: Easily managed

9: Boondocks

10: Choose

11: Not good enough for

12: Toned down

13: It meant little to de Gaulle

14: 'It all ___ on you'

16: Ditch

17: Cheaply sensational

19: Retains

21: Limerick lass

23: Ring toss item?

24: Excessively distressed

26: Bilko and Pepper

27: Resided
Down
1: Wets one's whistle

2: It can be saved and cured

3: Like some evening, in 'South Pacific'

4: Tests for quality

5: It may be passed on the Hill

6: Lovers' lane event

7: Delocalized

8: Holds out a carrot to

12: Like much of suburbia

13: Cutup

15: Lost

16: Hits the runway

18: Way of thinking

20: Be a ham

22: Destroy by degrees

25: Many, many moons




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