Crossword for Mon, 11/Aug/2008

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Across
1: Fits

5: Mythical drinks of the gods

9: Geological duration

10: Stranded, in a way

11: Got ready to be knighted

12: Compare

13: Blatherskite

15: T.S. Eliot, to Ezra Pound

17: Gardener

19: Low socks

22: Dawn

24: Without wasting words

26: Theodore Roosevelt's group

27: Some conjuctions

28: Painter's device

29: Lobby benches
Down
1: Secede from the Union, e.g.

2: Portable illumination

3: Twangy

4: Big party

5: Handrail support

6: It must be carefully balanced

7: Obliquely

8: Chrysler product

14: Occurring every nine weeks, roughly

16: Bacon and others

18: Lifeguard

19: Harvey Fierstein, when playing Edna Turnblad?

20: Ugly thing

21: Fillies, when grown

23: Rap sheet entry

25: Put a counter to zero




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