Crossword for Sun, 1/Jan/2012

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Across
1: Traffic light color

4: Own the throne

6: Bar bill

8: Shell purchase

9: Take away

10: ___ Noir (red wine)

12: Guarantee

13: Wharf pest

14: Part of a Boy Scout's uniform

16: Express sympathy

17: Cotton machine

18: New York state motto ('ever upward')

20: Frighten

21: They're left behind

22: Positions

24: Sea salt

25: Party's candidates

26: Rice field

Down
2: Medulla oblongata structure

3: St. Louis gridder

4: Word before sheet or session

5: They help some to come out of their shells

6: It's a drag on a gown

7: One who keeps dropping things

8: Understanding

9: Unsoundness

11: Surgery is rarely recommended for it these days

12: Certifies, as colleges

15: Fixed deeply and firmly

19: More adorable

22: Undivided

23: Troublemaker





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