Crossword for Sat, 8/Dec/2007

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Across
2: Professionals who might get your back up?

8: Weariness

9: Early 20th-century French art style

11: It's a drag on a gown

13: Chief point

14: Sad

15: Track transaction

16: Diva's repertoire

18: Infamy

21: Specialist's skill

23: Funeral hymn

25: Recovery setback

26: Hits the runway

28: Wrongdoer's bane

Down
1: Equip again

2: Cool dude

3: Showing inventiveness and skill

4: Alone, when preceded by 'by'

5: Proposer's fear

6: Produce in a hurry, with 'out'

7: In the same vein

10: Cupcake topper

12: Major cause of inflation

14: Crop protector

15: Collection of beliefs about life

17: Press on

18: Artless simplicity

19: Polish site

20: Goof

22: Transplant a seedling

24: Come after

27: That girl





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