Crossword for Sat, 8/Oct/2011

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Across
1: Chance for redemption

4: Word in ''The Trolley Song''

8: Former ironer?

10: Take off the board

11: Really, really bad

12: Make an old kitchen new, say

14: Short-lived

15: Paintbrush material

16: Make into a statute

17: Classic Schumann piano work

19: It makes cats scat

21: Rots

22: Pastoral poem

24: Started

26: Breaks, in a way

27: A dilapidated house, e.g.
Down
1: Fish spawn

2: Heat-of-the-moment determiner

3: Groom

4: Apple pie maker's gadget

5: Pub potable

6: Like many stump speeches

7: Most puzzle constructors

9: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

11: Sorted alphabetically (like this puzzle's clues)

13: Bit of high jinks

18: D'amour leader

20: Water conduits

23: Escape

25: Fizzle out




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