Crossword for Sat, 3/Nov/2012

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Across
1: Game bird

6: Agreed

9: Lies down

10: Cruise stopovers

11: Cowardly, in slang

12: Ocurrences

14: Leveled to the ground

15: It has strings

17: Winner of eight Tonys for 2003

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

22: More adept

23: Herbaceous ornamental

25: Prove useful to

26: Research results
Down
1: It's for the course?

2: Beat back

3: Reply

4: Brit's refuse holder

5: Signs up

6: More succulent

7: Earth mover

8: Treacherous

12: Girlfriend

13: Coordination centers

16: Like Switzerland, Laos, and Costa Rica

17: Getting better

18: Low

19: Little bit

21: Napkin cloth

24: Balaam's mount




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