Crossword for Sat, 1/Dec/2007

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Across
1: Black-headed gull

4: Their job is taxing

8: New convert

9: ___ d'art

11: Where one's first savings are deposited?

13: Darkroom chemical

14: Endure longer than

16: Stein filler

17: Balaam's mount

18: Stick on a table

19: Beefeater, e.g.

20: Where to see some squash

21: Cream of the crop

22: Cowardly

25: Roman wraps

26: Under an assumed name

27: Speared vegetable

28: Needing kneading?

Down
1: Online annoyance

2: Party for sheep shearers?

3: Itty-bitty

5: Prohibition-era fixtures

6: White expanse

7: Takeoff experts

10: Closeness

12: Stupefying

14: Boston Pops, e.g.

15: Attacker

23: Fort Knox bar

24: Semiconductor device





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