Crossword for Sat, 12/Jan/2008

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Across
1: Book with legends

4: Type of western

9: Mesa

10: Like King George III

11: They're used at truck stops

13: Pastoral poem

14: Issue

16: Seizes suddenly

19: Bookcase part

20: More clamant

21: More slick, as a walkway

23: Shine a light on

24: I Can't Believe ___ Not Butter! (bread spread brand)

25: Copying of a role model

27: Almost firm

28: Forest forays
Down
1: Army attackers

2: Rake

3: Go out with

4: Eased

5: Helpers

6: Small hoverer

7: One of the Roosevelts

8: Drive forward

12: Concerns for ecologists

15: Cheat

17: Flap

18: Bilko and Pepper

21: Some graven images

22: Language quirk

23: Rating a ten

26: Prized hardwood




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