Crossword for Wed, 3/Oct/2012

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Across
1: Performer

5: Literary narrator or character

7: Most moronic

8: 'On the ___ hand...'

10: Requiring three hankies, say

11: Part of the evening news

14: U-shaped charm

16: Liturgical headdress

17: It's a dyeing art

18: Web-making part of a spider

19: Bombshell

21: First zoo?

23: Enjoyed the Appalachian trail

24: Stamp collecting

25: Troop formation

26: Water flowers
Down
1: Numskulls

2: Flabbergasted

3: Stranded, in a way

4: Flirts bat them

5: Sell, as an idea for a TV show

6: Land alternative

9: Insincere ladies' men

12: Expostulatory

13: Seer's card

14: Riding attire

15: View from the top?

20: Turn red, as a tomato

22: Floors

23: Break up dirt clods, in a way




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