Crossword for Wed, 17/Mar/2010

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Across
1: Odds and ends

5: Button to hit when frozen

8: Hand

9: Doctrine

10: Pay back

12: Word before up, out, off or down

13: Paul's '60s-'70s singing partner

14: Gaping

16: Prohibition-era fixtures

19: Big house resident

20: Norton, to Kramden

21: Paces

22: Black-headed gull

23: Unfriendly quality

25: Seen less

26: Like baby rabbits
Down
1: Humiliate

2: Creosote source

3: Self-reproach

4: Ray of light

5: Some tracks

6: Modern writers' aids

7: Game catch

8: Wrongdoer's bane

11: Box office biggie

15: Folks who can’t adapt possibly drain us so (9)

17: Some are ''of the heart''

18: Decreasing?

20: Origami need

24: No longer fast




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