Crossword for Sat, 4/Jul/2009

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Across
1: Minty race-day drink

4: Fascination

8: Delete

9: Dramatic descents

11: Hungarian stew

12: More clamant

13: 'A fate ___ than death'

14: Investor's concern

15: On the wagon

18: Heed the dentist's order

20: Up a tree, maybe

21: Simple wind instrument

23: Laziness

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

25: Mr. Fixit

26: Poker ploy
Down
2: Bush or Texas follower

3: Get ready

4: It could be made in heaven

5: Web-making part of a spider

6: Monogram part

7: 29-Down fears them, too (he's mycophobic)

8: Small bit of work

10: Small boat

13: More loaded

14: Mark Twain, to Samuel Langhorne Clemens

16: Comedy genre

17: Press onward

18: Exemplar of lightness

19: Paper-folding art

21: Considerable amount

22: Boric acid target




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