Crossword for Sun, 7/Jan/2018

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Across
1: Very important

3: 'I've ___ it up to here!'

5: Biting

7: Hazarding a guess: cabbie who gets under your skin?

9: OPEC measure

10: Where to find Woodstock

11: Bother

12: Speech study

14: Begin work on

15: Bluffer's ploy

17: Sliding effect in music

19: Smith and Jones, maybe

21: Drags one's feet

22: Barbie's ex-beau

23: Coward

25: Overwhelmed

26: Check the check

27: Clutch

Down
1: Came up against

2: Closeness

3: Never leaving alone

4: Like trail mix fruit

5: Swears

6: Woodstock wear

8: Throw water on

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

10: Like dime novels

13: Beatified status

16: Tried

18: Prepare for surgery

20: Dance with a dip?

24: Talk foolishly





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