Crossword for Tue, 22/Sep/2009

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Across
1: Exploit

6: On a large scale

8: Small egg

9: Like some campgrounds

11: Opposing positions

13: Ends of vertebral columns

14: Neither here ___ there

15: Where some diplomats work

17: Nonsense

20: Egg manufacturer

21: Diminutive dessert?

23: Out in the sticks

25: Disciplinarians, essentially

26: Host at a roast

27: Hank of hair

28: Ruinous failures

Down
1: Lumps

2: Like some tickets

3: '... ___ I saw Elba'

4: Washroom fixture

5: They're skilled at saving

6: Slacker

7: For the birds

10: Lowest caste in 'Brave New World'

12: Promotional lotteries

14: Holmes and Moriarty, e.g.

16: Shaped like Earth

18: Auditing time

19: Supervised

22: Nitrous ___

24: Fertile loam

26: Ferrell film





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