Crossword for Wed, 8/Aug/2007

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Across
1: Badge wearer

5: Up to the task

9: Tennis call

10: Tolerate a sideshow barker?

11: Flabbergasted

12: Muslim teachers

13: Kook

15: Bro or sis

18: Recede, as the tide

20: Slip up

21: Half of the symbol for 'approximately equal to'

23: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

25: Expostulatory

26: Prop for 'The Hustler'

27: Old Madrid money

28: Soup servers
Down
1: Canfield, e.g.

2: VIP's following

3: Guts

4: Bouquet

5: West Point student

6: Snoopy's comic strip

7: Project for your dyeing days

8: Like a Stephen King story

14: Shrew

16: Complain in a whiny manner

17: Sentry's attribute

19: Gun point?

21: Turncoat

22: Goalie pad attachment

23: Quinces, e.g.

24: Can't stomach




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