Crossword for Fri, 20/Feb/2009

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Across
1: Broadcasts a 1937 Cary Grant film?

6: Lower, as lights

8: Conflicting flavors

10: Dot follower

11: Befitting a king

12: Not that bad

13: Cattle locales

14: Dribbled

15: Fujiyama feature

18: Brush aside

21: Modern messages

22: Wash abrasively

23: Moisten

24: It has feathers and may be airborne

25: Family man

26: They're hot
Down
1: Less loaded

2: Stop-sign shape

3: Modern writers' aids

4: Shellfish selection

5: Said 'Guilty,' e.g.

6: Noise pollution unit

7: May celebrant

9: Mottled inlay material

16: Failed to include

17: Niacin source

18: Takes out

19: Physicist's atom

20: Flatters, in a way

23: Blob of used gum




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