Crossword for Thu, 5/Jan/2012

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Across
1: T-bar offering

4: Polyglots

8: Pain in the neck

9: Plan a course

10: Water-created depressions

12: Grieve

13: Board Amtrak

14: Most balmy

16: Brewers' needs

18: Name on a ballot

20: One of the Roosevelts

21: Before birth

22: Let on

23: Bearings

25: Explosive concoction

26: 9 - 5, e.g.
Down
1: Fly-by-night

2: Lurid

3: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

4: Alternatives to mobile phones

5: Seasonal songs

6: Reputation

7: Lustrous fabric

9: Scot-free

11: Opposite indicator

14: Revolutionary War figure

15: Vine supports

17: Belly

19: Trawler's haul

20: Steel guitar sound

21: Fearful request by the IRS, to some

24: Chimpanzee's hoot




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