Crossword for Fri, 10/Apr/2009

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Across
1: Puts up money for, as a play

4: Precious stone

7: Practical joke

9: Shop shaper

10: The largest in captivity is about 23 feet long

11: Undesired audience reaction

12: Franchise buyer, for one

14: Captain's standby

15: Room style

17: Desert stopover

19: Gathering

21: Minuscule amount

23: Hellish spot

24: Return to the initial position

25: Soothing ointment

26: Undercover worker

27: With an ulterior motive

28: Locales

Down
1: Campanologist's pants?

2: Cascades

3: Step on the gas, e.g.

5: Party for sheep shearers?

6: Dancer's body suit

7: Figurative albatross with a golden sound?

8: Turn right

10: Scot-free

13: Bulldozers, e.g.

16: Thin smoke wrapped in whole-leaf tobacco

18: Official seals

20: Plagues

22: 'The Gift of the Magi' device

24: ___-relief





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