Crossword for Wed, 14/May/2008

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Across
1: Fifth calendar page

3: Big books

9: Bulb in a bed

10: One side of the generation gap, often

11: Transpire

12: Put out

15: One who keeps dropping things

16: Cowardly, in slang

22: Guile

23: Unwanted sound

24: Publication founded in 1843 to campaign against the Corn Laws, with 'The'

26: 'Come on in'

27: They're hot

28: Use the oars
Down
1: Afternoon performance

2: Coward

3: Mimic

4: Clique

5: 'To love __ is the beginning of a lifelong romance': Wilde

6: Word after tax

7: Wrath

8: Methodology (abbr.)

13: Fashionable doggy?

14: Fancy affairs

16: 'Sure thing!'

17: Spotted cats

18: Inhuman

19: Half-moon shape

20: Distance

21: Unsophisticated

24: Fall off, as the tide

25: Surgery sites, briefly




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