Crossword for Thu, 12/Mar/2009

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Across
1: Human resources employee

4: Retreat

8: Office tablet

9: Noble jurisdiction

11: A gardener's might be green

13: Color also called London brown

14: Dislike, and then some

15: Tie pattern, perhaps

16: Villagers' lights, in 'Frankenstein'

18: Less friendly

20: Shiite leader

22: Celebrities

23: Action figure outlet

24: Japanese warrior caste

27: Puts another way

28: Make a comeback
Down
1: Brooding type?

2: Remove red eye, e.g.

3: Coolio's genre

4: 'Groovy, dude!'

5: Understandable

6: Birth

7: Carpenters visit them

10: Wash-off tattoo

11: Banquet figure

12: Her identity may be unknown to an adoptee

15: Mental aberration

17: Part of a willing trio

19: Wicked

21: Azure stone

25: Debussy's 'La ___'

26: Wrigley stuff




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