Crossword for Fri, 11/Apr/2008

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Across
1: Big books

7: Ticked off

9: Hammer

10: Gazes at girls

11: Occupy

13: Sum and substance

14: It's used for shots

15: Mature, presumably

16: Tree that repels insects

19: Race bettor's adviser

21: Set apart from the rest

22: Egyptian tourist attraction

23: 'Put two and two together,' for one

24: Remove graphite or graffiti

26: Bit of the 'work force' found in the six longest answers in this puzzle

27: Expostulatory
Down
1: The end of night?

2: Pestle, e.g.

3: Long-lived

4: Authorize

5: Lettuce type

6: Broadcasts a 1937 Cary Grant film?

7: Skin pigment

8: Ill humored

11: Waiter's deduction (Part 2)

12: Second-stringer

17: Tying up

18: Re, to chemists

19: Pacific threat

20: Middle ears

24: Discommode (with 'at')

25: Be corrosive




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