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Crossword: Insults

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Across
1. "I never ------ a face, but in your case, I'll make an exception." Groucho Marx.
5. "If I were married to you, I'd put ------ in your coffee." Lady Astor to Winston Churchill.
7. What the wife of an early Roosevelt called him.
8. Fall-like.
9. "------" Dick Nixon.
14. "Your father is so dumb, he stole a car and kept up the --------."
15. "------ the Hen." Clement Freud (about Margaret Thatcher).
16. Steak -------. Some like it raw.
19. Fancy.
22. Promote.
23. "If you were my wife, I'd ----- it." Winston Churchill to Lady Astor (reponse to 5 across).
24. "She's has been married so many times she has ---- marks on her face."
25. Element, used as protective coating for iron and steel.
26. Pay attention.
27. USA's bane.
Down
1. Dog's bane.
2. "I enjoyed talking to you. My mind needed a ----." Henny Youngman.
3. Durable painted surface.
4. Spanish king who gave name to oriental archipelago.
5. "There are two ways of disliking ------; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope." Oscar Wilde (about Alexander Pope)
6. Maritime armed forces.
10. Drunk.
11. Series of karate exercizes.
12. Greta.
13. Preminger.
16. Vitamin B-1.
17. "Every word she ------ is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" Mary McCarthy (about Lillian Hellman)
18. Opp. of dissonant.
20. "A great ------ in the diadem of American literature." Gore Vidal (about Truman Capote)
21. Yuppie compulsion.


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