Crossword for Sat, 9/Feb/2013

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Across
1: Shade of yellow

6: Burglar deterrent

9: Secret collaborator

11: Feline, to Tweety

12: Stupefying

13: Garment workers

16: About ninety days

17: Star seen late at night

18: Slender, graceful woman

19: They're hot

23: Feed one's face

24: Sites of some traffic delays

25: Type of wave

26: Full of pep

Down
2: 'Rainbow' fish

3: Devoured

4: Fairway vehicles

5: Aristocrat

7: Before birth

8: Change

9: Like many stump speeches

10: Move backward

14: Approximated

15: Gardener's plot

16: Vacation split

20: Coal black

21: Breaking a commandment

22: Black ball, in billiards





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