Crossword for Sat, 22/Dec/2007

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Across
2: SWAT team specialists

9: Highlander pattern

10: Charged particle

11: Point the finger at

12: Input for a recorder

14: Shorten

15: Cote d'Azur menu

16: Swell

18: One in hot water

21: Party for sheep shearers?

23: Stave off

24: Craving

25: Up's partner

26: Modern writers' aids
Down
1: They can be deceiving

2: Sling mud

3: Futuristic automaton

4: Stamp collecting

5: Suggests, with 'at'

6: One that gets around?

7: Open-shelved cabinet

8: 'Get my meaning?'

13: Job that involves ladder climbing

15: In a stupor

16: Miles from __

17: Kind of attack

19: Ubiquitous synthetic

20: Newspaper chiefs

22: Egyptian pictograph

23: Dunderhead




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