Crossword for Thu, 11/Oct/2007

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Across
1: Unit of electric charge

4: Least sloppy

7: Steps within a computer program

9: Physics unit

11: Book with legends

12: Tangled

14: Chowderheads

16: Service station job

17: Collection of beliefs about life

19: 'Loves me not' unit

21: Device

22: Deviate from the script

24: Palindrome in poetry

25: Hollywood success

27: Blank first page

28: Lay waste to
Down
1: Eclair filling

2: Some wind players

3: 'Fiddlesticks!'

4: Persona __ grata

5: Decline to vote

6: Soothing agent

8: OPEC measure

10: Center

13: Stranded, in a way

15: Fringe

17: Cetacean

18: Court maneuver

19: Packing material

20: Word on a dime

23: Pretend, with 'on'

26: Loutish fellow




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