Crossword for Sun, 18/May/2008

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Across
1: Inadequate

6: Snooty critter?

9: Anti-inflammatory choice

10: Takes to the prom, e.g.

11: Source of bizarre ideas, so to speak

14: Ring toss item?

15: Stage of advancement

17: Flabbergasted

19: Tease mercilessly

21: Cowardly

23: Puts out

24: San Francisco transport

26: Wind instrument

27: Left orbit

Down
1: Small amount

2: Material of no consequence

3: 'Hee Haw' setting

4: Yuletide worker

5: Half a score

6: ___ over (assisted through difficulty)

7: Improvised

8: Flower-shaped decoration

12: Lapses, as a subscription

13: Gives gratuitously

15: Customs officer's concern

16: Most moronic

17: Undersea weapon

18: Bade

20: Paleontological preservative

22: Acquire, as a debt

24: Churchill's title

25: Numbered hwy.





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