Crossword for Thu, 11/Sep/2008

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Across
3: Jim-dandy

9: Stupefying

10: Call on

11: Nod

12: Press on

14: Present wrapper, maybe

15: Fashionable canine?

16: Small potatoes

21: Crash into on purpose

23: Nasty drops

24: Fungus type

25: A white one is small

27: Ace in the hole business?

28: Fashionable doggy?

Down
1: Elaborate pretense

2: Like some memos

3: Musical event

4: Spartan

5: Used needles

6: Joplin's genre

7: Sure-footed animal

8: Prepare to be knighted

13: 'Our father'

17: Cricket's cousin

18: Meshed up?

19: Military strip

20: Abandon hope

22: Tropical woe

23: Water balloon impact sound

26: Palindromic preposition





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