Crossword for Fri, 25/May/2007

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Across
1: Boxers' wraps

3: Utilitarian

8: Wheel covers

11: Rose sticker

12: Shade of blue

13: Peeved

14: Kelp, e.g.

15: Crumpled

18: Crescent-shaped opening

19: Hooded jackets

20: Clan members

23: Less outgoing

24: The bare minimum

25: Did some wishful thinking

26: Gorgeous

27: Prepared to propose
Down
1: Wedding run-through

2: Assertion

4: Late bloomer

5: Brook catch

6: BIG DIPPER

7: Furious

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

10: Partner of fold and mutilate

15: Nonsense

16: Pedestrian safeway

17: Show to be untrustworthy

20: Opposable digit

21: Make applicable

22: Central theme




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