Crossword for Mon, 12/Apr/2010

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Across
1: Water flowers

5: Get off on the tarmac

9: Zola's literary style

11: By no means long-winded

12: Stage of advancement

14: Examples of low life?

17: Electronic data transmission, briefly

19: Always existing

20: Morally strict

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

24: Represent onstage

25: Pitching style

26: Personal liberty

27: Without relenting
Down
1: Outside consultants?

2: Carol's kings, e.g.

3: Impress

4: Offspring

6: Hardly fine literature

7: Eagle's nest

8: Squeeze (out)

10: Go out of bounds, perhaps

13: Any second now

15: Had a feast

16: Islamic salutations

18: Gus McRae's occupation in 'Lonesome Dove'

21: Point the finger at

22: Michelangelo's 'David,' and others

23: Foolish

24: Yuletide worker




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