Crossword for Wed, 11/Jun/2008

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Across
1: Hazarding a guess: worker with really good manners?

7: Whole kit and caboodle

9: Minor decline

10: Advertiser

11: Fight, with 'it up'

12: Wrongdoer's bane

13: Of greater concern

14: Free of artificiality

16: Some library tomes

18: Grind, as one's teeth

21: Closeness

23: Family men

24: Least forthcoming

25: Hearty brew

26: Used to be

27: Marine

Down
1: Moistened, in a way

2: Not so gloomy

3: One coming over

4: Allotrope of oxygen

5: Employs glass wool

6: Pitcher

7: Fleet person

8: Specialized vocabulary list

14: Oldies evocation

15: ''Shake!'' offering

16: Fine-tunes, e.g.

17: Like vocabulary

18: Sparkle like gold

19: Work up

20: Harry at home

22: Sorcery practiced in the West Indies





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