Crossword for Thu, 31/Dec/2009

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Across
1: Jazz genre

3: Watering hole

5: Low-tech hair dryer

8: 'Skoal,' for one

10: Beatles classic

11: 'Boston Public' figure

12: Charity event

14: Would-be dictator

16: Sent a message the old-fashioned way

17: Italian rice dish

19: BIG DIPPER

23: Spacy type?

24: Beginning

25: Earth-bearer of myth

26: Help and comfort

27: Joined, like oxen
Down
1: Place for a rubber duck

2: Throw from the mound

3: Abstained from frequenting in a major way

4: Button in an alley

5: He's introduced to sign in astrology reference book (9)

6: Area measurement

7: Like some harmonies or haircuts

9: Weapons cache

13: Unhealthy attachments

14: Justified

15: Excursions

16: Keyboard composition

18: Circled elliptically, e.g.

20: Christmas, in Portuguese

21: Altiplano animal

22: Tongue-in-cheek quality




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