Crossword for Sun, 1/Feb/2009

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Across
2: Aesthetic sense

4: More vivacious

8: Speak formally

9: Took a stab at?

10: Portion

11: Big hit for the club members, and what might elicit the shaded words

13: Stylish, in the '60s

15: Go out with

16: Enticements

17: Decline

18: Hinny's mother

19: Highlander's cap

21: Portable illumination

22: Spar part

24: 1A, for example

26: 1979 Sigourney Weaver film

27: Lets off the hook

28: Heart location
Down
1: Thrive

2: Vocal effect

3: Its depth is illusory

4: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

5: Took a powder

6: Translate

7: Hamelin's bane

9: One who keeps dropping things

12: Sources of power for the daily grind?

14: Show by drawing

17: New England fall spectacle

20: Scrapbook item

23: Accepted statement

25: Helpful hint




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