Crossword for Sun, 18/Jan/2009

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Across
2: Blatherskite

6: Some choir singers

9: Multiplexes

10: Most spiffy

11: Low brass

12: Small suitcase

14: Like many stump speeches

17: SWAT team specialists

20: Sentry's attribute

22: Soup-drinking noise

24: Salt type

25: Sweet potato

26: Low point

27: Like some returned merchandise

Down
1: Within the law

2: Blowhard

3: John, Paul, George and Ringo, e.g.

4: Some coll. degrees

5: Wish grantor

6: 1966 Peck/Loren spy thriller

7: Part of a spinning wheel

8: Soaked through and through

12: EEE indicator

13: NBC?

15: Shrimp cocktail, often

16: Birds on Golden Pond

18: Formally modified

19: Scrutinized

21: Finito

22: Street vernacular

23: Yellowish pink

25: Electrical resistance unit





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