Crossword for Wed, 28/Jan/2009

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Across
1: Fathom, for example

4: Sympathetic supporters

9: Fixed, as a shoe

10: Uncomfortable humidity

12: Deficiency (and an alternate title for this puzzle)

14: Fruit flaws

16: Movie exec's concerns

17: Skin pigment

18: Vintner's event

20: Department store counter items

22: Publication founded in 1843 to campaign against the Corn Laws, with 'The'

24: White wading bird

26: Was like

27: Apostle Andrew's brother
Down
1: Ruffle

2: Spanky, to Alfalfa

3: Keeps secret

4: Good judgment

5: Carp constantly

6: Bearing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled

7: Like God

8: Venus and Serena, e.g.

11: Betray

13: Hardly generous

15: Haboob, e.g.

17: He'll rub you the right way

19: Seem to be gold, perhaps

21: Quite high

23: Off one's feed

25: Wharf pest




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