Crossword for Mon, 24/Aug/2009

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Across
1: Snazzy sweaters

4: Strode back and forth

8: Occurring every nine weeks, roughly

10: Set straight

11: Ancient mariner

12: Big hit

13: Tortes and petits fours

14: Driveway material

15: Feeler

17: Spectacles, e.g.

19: Soothing pill

21: Lake-bottom navigation impediments

22: Bottomless pit

23: Wharf pest

24: Gets to

26: Rock star's faithful

27: Lab jobs

28: Machinations

Down
1: Adjudicate

2: Sweet treat

3: Outside consultants?

4: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

5: Siamese or Persian

6: Tipsy

7: Keeps secret

9: Insincere ladies' men

13: Morning aftertaste

16: Sentry's attribute

18: Soldier's shoulder piece

20: Spar part

21: Start the match

25: Part of CBS: Abbr.





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