Crossword for Thu, 30/Jul/2009

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Across
1: Late bloomer

4: Blowhard

8: Peak peak

10: Brake neighbor

11: Bought and sold drugs illegally

12: Tracked vehicle

14: Set up

15: Passing through a membrane

16: Awakening

18: Taste buds, essentially

20: Beat in a gunfight

21: Shaking of the earth

23: Place (a bet)

25: Old-time saloon

26: Ne'er-do-well

27: Therapeutic center, for short
Down
1: Full metal jacket?

2: Bombshell

3: Prepare for a new career

4: Wrongdoer's bane

5: John's Jordan River rite

6: Practical joke

7: Hinders

9: Mottled inlay material

13: Water moccasin

14: Title that's Persian for 'sign of God'

17: Flashes

19: Nor partner

22: Caustic

24: Archery bow wood




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