Crossword for Tue, 17/Mar/2009

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Across
2: Chum

5: Place of peace and quiet

9: Hooded jackets

10: Cut down

11: Type of bus

12: Well-muscled

13: Baton wielder

15: Make a bid

16: Stew seasoning

17: Bony-plated beast

20: How some are taken

21: Visual aids

23: Pick up pizza, say

25: Kermit as a youth

26: Lucille Ball, e.g.

27: Family room
Down
1: Mixture

2: Apt

3: Marine, or impediment for Dracula?

4: Throw a monkey wrench into, e.g.

5: Shorten

6: Hardly a dream date

7: Dishonest

8: Reviewer of books

12: Unshockable

14: Crossed diagonally, say

16: Double-dealer

17: Helped someone cover up?

18: Eminent conductor

19: Edible mollusks

22: Sing like Crosby

24: Metal-in-the-rough




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