Crossword for Fri, 12/Feb/2010

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Across
2: Electrify

4: Painkiller

9: Superficial

10: NASA activity

11: Skip the ceremony

12: Poser

14: Harsh cough

16: Nautical almanac listing

18: Releases

21: Undeliverable letter, to a postal worker

22: Bygone cinema bonuses

24: Fledgling pigeon

25: Twisted treat

26: Long short story

27: Visual aids

28: Louse egg

Down
1: Thing that conceals

2: Site of the first nationally televised college basketball game

3: Make blank

4: Chocoholics, e.g.

5: Scuba, e.g.

6: Newbie

7: Ravi's instrument

8: Coquettish

13: Main circuit card in a computer

15: Celebrity-chasing photographers

17: One with very little womb room

19: Thin varnish used in finishing

20: Indicates agreement

23: One of the five w's

24: 'Magnificent' movie number

25: Chart shape





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