Crossword for Sun, 23/Nov/2008

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Across
1: Do a verbal tap dance

6: Administered medicine to

9: Beat walker

10: Three-horned dinosaur

11: Quit

12: Form of rummy

14: Sensory system components

16: Over the hill

17: Typist's speed meas.

18: Car without brakes, say

19: Endangered Florida creature

21: Deity resembling Pan

23: Dürer's 'Life of the Virgin,' e.g.

25: Moisten

26: Bowling alley button

27: Perfidy
Down
1: Rot

2: Good target for a scam

3: Captivated

4: Formulaic writing

5: Odist's 'before'

6: Exhaust

7: Broadcasts a 1937 Cary Grant film?

8: Treacherous

11: Like a solemn observance

12: Packed items that might take a number?

13: It helps level the playing field?

15: Part of SAC

20: Implied

22: Like an eccentric uncle

24: 'Dora the Explorer' viewer

25: Tiny




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