Crossword for Thu, 3/May/2012

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Across
1: Ace

9: Hotbed for baby bloomers

10: Speech

11: Natural magnet

13: Certain tournament round

14: Lengthy

17: Concise in speech

19: Another helping

20: Cager's credits

21: Giver

22: Exaggerate

25: Optical range

26: Stalking-horse

27: Roundabout expression
Down
1: Secret meetings

2: Pungent

3: Cap locales

4: Bit of sunshine

5: By oneself

6: Hikers' burdens

7: Alvin and Theodore

8: Families share them

12: Comets, to the superstitious

15: Deft storyteller

16: Legal title

17: Rental agreement

18: Tapes

21: Dorothy's visit to Oz, e.g.

22: Frisky swimmer

23: Wind danger

24: Locales

26: Explode




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