Crossword for Sat, 18/Oct/2008

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Across
1: Aquatic rodent

4: Was in the lead

8: Cheddar quality

10: Wash-off tattoo

11: Adjective for Oscar Wilde

12: Blessings

13: 'Three on a ___' (1932 Bette Davis melodrama)

15: Sluggish

17: Yarn-spinning

19: Type of whale

20: Stir

22: Like Schubert's music, e.g.

24: Lionel Richie hit

25: Cooked Texas-style

27: Babble

28: Soup and salad, e.g.
Down
1: They might be unsolicited: Abbr.

2: Word on some buttons

3: Pedicure target

4: Computer bulletin board mgr.

5: Input for a recorder

6: Math figure

7: Valleys

9: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

11: 'What ___ Want' (2000 film)

14: Hairy arachnid

16: Saharan transport

18: Nonproprietary

20: Incriminate falsely

21: Inspire

23: Proper or common parts of speech

26: Scale starts




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