Crossword for Sat, 24/May/2008

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Across
1: Unskilled writers

4: How-to-get-it-done science

9: SWAT team specialists

11: Pulsate

13: Snared

15: ''This was ___ finest hour'' (Churchill)

16: Moved a bit

18: Pounce (upon)

21: Market place

22: Deductive reasonings

23: Sudden jerk

24: Flowering shrub of the four-o'clock family

26: State flower of Nebraska

27: Lightened up
Down
1: Paused

2: Committee head

3: Forest runner

5: Caverns

6: Deceitful tricks

7: '___ Not Unusual' (Tom Jones hit)

8: Easel, e.g.

10: Follows closely, as a dog

12: Old-time saloon

14: Some refrigerator contents

17: Realm of Morpheus

19: Heartache

20: Gardner's lawyer

22: Former Police man

24: Unit of oil production, briefly

25: Wrath




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