Crossword for Wed, 26/Mar/2014

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Across
1: Slip

5: They're hidden in this puzzle's theme entries

9: Clutch

10: Consultant

11: Sanction

13: Confidence

14: Do Miss Piggy, say

16: Contemptible fellow

17: Knock (about)

18: Rider on a crowded subway car

19: Gypsum variety

22: Human trunk

23: More raucous

24: Block house?

26: Ransom note contents

27: '___ to Watch Over Me' (Gershwin tune)
Down
1: Subunit of a gig

2: Like some potatoes

3: Screw thread cutter

4: Upswept hairstyle

5: Genre

6: Ringing

7: Firebug's crime

8: Throw in the towel

12: Microcomputer's stronger kin

14: Fixed deeply and firmly

15: Speared vegetable

16: Thin smoke wrapped in whole-leaf tobacco

20: Universally accepted statement

21: Wears out

24: Belief

25: Blast furnace input




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