Crossword for Thu, 5/Jun/2008

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Across
1: Contemptible fellow

3: Jim-dandy

8: Employ excessively

10: Asian lady beetle, for one

11: Rider on a crowded subway car

12: Squealer

13: Like some boring speeches, facetiously

15: Clean with elbow grease

18: Pulled a checking scam

20: Stored, as fodder

22: The 'S' in CBS: Abbr.

24: Like a solemn observance

26: Shorten

27: Successful person

28: Magician's art

29: Da!

Down
1: Pedestrian safeway

2: Most dismal

3: Walked heavily

4: Moviemaker's light

5: Goes back

6: Puffed-up snake

7: Measure of purity

9: Stand for knickknacks

14: Some seeded bagels

16: X-ray science

17: Railings

19: Epithet for President Bush, with 'the'

21: Pole cats?

22: Slow critter

23: Small shoot

25: Screen Superman





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