Crossword for Tue, 24/Feb/2009

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Across
1: Went on and on

4: Spock's field

8: About a drop

9: Kitchen riser

10: Part of CBS: Abbr.

11: Weapons cache

12: Potato dish garnish, perhaps

13: Possible relative

15: NPR has none

16: Diminutive dog

17: Steps within a computer program

18: Kind of comb

20: Names derived from people

22: Stick on a table

23: Top hat accompaniment

24: Do a one step

26: Like some harmonies or haircuts

27: Completely bonkers
Down
1: Lamb pop

2: Religious retreat

3: Unit of light

4: SWAT team specialists

5: Translate

6: Like Fran Drescher's voice

7: Bacon and others

9: Cowardly, in slang

13: Like 'Billionaires for Bush'

14: Splash

15: Vexation

19: Itty-bitty

21: Gavel pounder's demand

25: Man in a lodge




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