Crossword for Wed, 12/Dec/2012

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Across
1: Open up, as a flower

5: Palindromic speed demon

8: Quill accompanier

9: Centralized, as government

11: Reserve

13: Cabo ___ Lucas

14: ''Dick and Jane'' verb

15: Second-stringer

16: Good judgment

19: Diminutive dog

20: What eds. edit

21: Bad language

23: Fine fabric

25: Fancy furs

27: Secular

28: Leather outfit?
Down
1: Prickly shrub

2: Furniture material, sometimes

3: Artists' buys

4: Skin pigment

5: Stimulate, as memory

6: Blighter

7: Ship's clock

10: Eellike fish

12: Heat-of-the-moment determiner

13: Golda Meir, e.g.

14: Give in

17: Covert operations need

18: Emerging

22: Sarah Vaughan's sobriquet

24: Pretty pitiful

26: Word in the society pages




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