Crossword for Thu, 14/Apr/2011

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Across
1: Too bad

6: Sure-footed animal

8: Quill, once

9: Bit of high jinks

11: Mont Blanc, for one

12: Stuffed mattresses [up to 126 pounds]

14: Vote checkers

15: White wading bird

17: Cornball

18: Kind of triangle

21: Drew Barrymore to Steven Spielberg

23: Contend (for)

24: Red Cross vehicle

26: Henri, e.g.

27: Crony

28: Where Tris Speaker performed
Down
1: Succeed

2: Ship-to-shore connection

3: Hackberry's family

4: Merchant ship's cargo

5: Gray-barked trees

6: Like a gymnast

7: Match, in poker

10: San Francisco transport

12: Enchanting place

13: Part of a musical gig

16: Pertinence

17: Not share

18: Like some toenails

19: Prison's antithesis, with 'the'

20: Prepared clams, maybe

22: Speak foolishly

24: Go, with 'on down'

25: Mischievous little creature




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