Crossword for Fri, 20/May/2011

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Across
1: Nosh that may come with a schmear

4: Broke the budget

9: Narcotics

10: Small chicken

11: 29-Down's job

12: Opposable digit

14: Aversion

16: Comparisons

19: Rebel

20: Small depressions

21: Stand in the studio

22: Defendant's hope

24: Blight on the landscape

27: Sincerely flatter?

28: Strictly speaking

29: Black flies, e.g.
Down
1: Red Cross vehicle

2: Tiny flash

3: Fashionable one?

4: Stubborn

5: Slippery swimmer

6: What spirits may do

7: Development

8: Weight found in the middle of this puzzle's five longest answers

13: They're hot

15: Demanding

17: Period before the Middle Ages

18: Priest-making

23: Sparkling topper

24: Slender fish

25: Lifeboat must

26: Japanese delicacy




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