Crossword for Wed, 18/Dec/2013

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Across
1: Insincere ladies' men

7: Part of a journey

8: Bit of high jinks

10: First Amendment word

12: Little bit

13: Soap additive

15: Poker variety in which the best hand is called a wheel

16: High-class achievements?

17: American and Swiss, e.g.

19: Stranger in a strange land

20: Pick up pizza, say

22: Initially embroidered

25: Bring out in the open

26: Modern writers' aids
Down
1: Friendly

2: Point of view

3: Was in charge of

4: Pub potable

5: Long-tailed swimmers

6: Kind of life

8: Example of polluted politics

9: Stranded, in a way

11: Way of thinking

12: Ask for

14: Chopin works

16: Undertake

18: Biting productions

21: Speak formally

23: 100%

24: Speeding ticket letters




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