Crossword for Wed, 16/Sep/2009

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Across
1: Battery boosts

6: Improvised musical accompaniments

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

10: Yuri Gagarin's SK-1, e.g.

11: Some deep-sea denizens

13: Out of line

15: Dish accompanier of rhyme

17: Reader of punch cards

20: Inferior rhymer of verses

22: Like many stump speeches

23: Gallows item

24: Left orbit
Down
1: Sensory system components

2: Musical set at the Kit Kat Club

3: Stage of growth

4: Bermuda and bamboo, for two

5: Outdoor acquisitions

6: Phone convenience

7: Jingle shell, e.g.

8: Game's beginning

12: Ask for change

14: Justified

16: Pizza herb

17: In name only

18: 'Messiah' genre

19: Race bettor's adviser

20: Heathen

21: Emulated Endymion




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