Crossword for Wed, 14/Dec/2011

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Across
1: Fix, as a computer

4: Easily angered

9: Aspirant, informally

11: Put hair dressing on

12: Wrongdoer's bane

13: Internal Revenue Service investigation

14: Stain, as a reputation

19: Feminine pronoun

20: To bury

21: Party for sheep shearers?

25: Regatta crew

26: Fast seller, supposedly

27: 17-Across protagonist

28: Classroom fixtures
Down
1: Diminishes in importance

2: Internet user's concern

3: 2000 film garnering Best Picture and Best Actor honors

5: Jobs and Wozniak start-up

6: Caravan beast

7: Dot with droplets

8: Downy duck

10: License

15: Stimulate, as memory

16: Started

17: Thing featuring the sands of time

18: Sympathetic supporters

21: All wet

22: Rowed the boat

23: Greek letter

24: Sophomoric grade found in this puzzle's three longest entries




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