Crossword for Sat, 24/Nov/2012

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Across
1: Saying

5: Snuff stuff

9: Rhodes, for one

10: Warts, tumors, etc.

11: Competitor's chance for redemption

13: Wild criticism

14: Activity preceding liftoff

16: Back-to-health process

17: Home away from home

18: Style of car

19: Hornet's defense

20: 10 Downing Street, for one

23: Australian expanse

25: Sluggishness

27: Prepare a galley

28: Most graphic, in a way
Down
1: Baffler

2: Cry of delight

3: Enthusiastic approval

4: Her identity may be unknown to an adoptee

5: Label

6: Metalworker's tool

7: Slogan

8: Initiation

12: Peak peak

13: Piercing

15: Message carriers

19: Nasal laugh

21: Gloomy, to poets

22: Get underway

24: Young ferret

26: Vacation souvenir




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