Crossword for Sat, 13/Sep/2008

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Across
1: Monumental meal

4: Office plaque

9: Mr. Fixit

10: 'Drying out' program

11: Shot giver

12: Company dodger

13: SWAT team specialists

15: 'Boston Public' figure

18: Vegas machines

20: Decry

22: Baby hooter

24: One in rehab for chatting too much?

25: Former ironer?

26: Office furniture

Down
1: Ancestors

2: Strives

3: Three-horned dinosaur

4: Dubbed

5: Large butterfly

6: A pop

7: White as a ghost

8: Hot coal

12: King Richard's epithet

14: Some heels

16: Juicy morsels

17: People who correct printers' proofs

18: Warehouse

19: Perennial resembling a primrose

21: Bowl opening?

23: Player's peg





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