Crossword for Fri, 21/Sep/2007

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Across
1: Mimic

5: Get in good condition

9: Moderately slow, musically

10: Like Pluto, among the planets

11: Battlefield bravery

12: Whole number

13: Apt

15: Increase in loudness

17: Treat, as bottled water

18: Lovers' lane event

19: Ham it up

21: Lab research animal

22: Ditch

23: Storage facility for B-52s

25: Conceptualized

26: Beethoven's 'Appassionata' et al.
Down
2: Goalie's protection

3: Creepy crawler

4: Comes down hard

5: Making Kool-Aid with holy water, e.g.

6: Pass out

7: Hospital sign

8: 'Our father'

11: Tough-skinned mammals

14: Ethanol vis-à-vis gasoline

15: Called on the carpet

16: Twin-hulled boat

20: Taxpayer's worry

21: A lot

24: It may be passed on the Hill




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