Crossword for Sun, 9/Nov/2008

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Across
1: Do Miss Piggy, say

7: Eyeball

9: Stretched

10: Golfer's companion

11: Long-term convict

12: Point of a fable

13: Lurid

15: Expostulatory

16: Drew Barrymore to Steven Spielberg

19: ''___ Duke'' (Stevie Wonder tune)

20: Heavy blow

21: Back-forty measure

23: Vernacularism

25: Dumb clucks

26: George W. Bush, to George H.W. Bush

27: Fashionable doggy?

Down
1: Just right

2: Slip spotter

3: Four-minute mile breaker Bannister

4: Ideal

5: Stand under a fire

6: It'll give you a lift

7: On in years

8: Took a stab at?

13: Part of the evening news

14: How-to-get-it-done science

15: Try again

17: Complain

18: Like some pant legs

21: Saunter

22: Ocean tracker

24: Tourist establishment





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