Crossword for Sun, 24/Feb/2008

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Across
1: It must be carefully balanced

5: Got in shape, with 'up'

8: Gave a hand?

9: Outer skin layer

11: Cowardly, in slang

14: Mottled inlay material

17: Stage of advancement

20: Input for a recorder

23: Gus McRae's occupation in 'Lonesome Dove'

24: Total before deductions

25: They go into drives

26: Night cover?
Down
1: Golfer's companion

2: Shoulder board (Var.)

3: Set of supplies

4: Like many stump speeches

5: Stickers on neckwear?

6: Dubbed

7: Ravaged

10: Hardly hale

12: Part of a crew

13: Shamed

15: Kept up

16: Battery part

18: Places to splash

19: Hospital areas, briefly

20: Chips in a chip

21: Bit of resistance

22: Lightened up

24: Generation separator




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