Crossword for Thu, 24/Feb/2011

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Across
1: It helps level the playing field?

6: What you gotta have, in a 'Damn Yankees' song

8: Dramatic descents

9: Big hole in the ground

11: Street urchin

12: Go over

13: Target of tweezers

15: Intention

16: Pollen spreader

17: Spanky, to Alfalfa

18: Symbol of sturdiness

20: Half a tick

21: Original

22: Subdued

24: Social misfits

25: Tart fruit

27: Droopy

28: New convert
Down
1: Like cherries jubilee

2: Wrongdoer's bane

3: En ___ (all together)

4: Affect with two opposing forces at once

5: Lull

6: South-of-the-border spreads

7: ''Man of the Year'' for one?

10: The story of my life?

13: Mathematical powers

14: In a boisterous way

19: Patella

20: Tony, for one

23: Swimmer in a pod

26: Prior to, in verse




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