Crossword for Wed, 18/May/2011

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Across
2: With it

4: Stuffed tubes

9: Spine line

10: Onslaught

11: Erase, as videotape

13: Burn slowly

14: Baby bird?

15: Bring in more troops

17: Revolutionary War figure

19: Karate blows

21: Neophobe's fear

23: Boat race

24: Kind of comb

25: Atlantis' cover

27: Good luck bringer?

28: Note on a music scale
Down
1: Engineer read its diatribes (7)

2: Vocational identifier

3: Whatever

4: Vortex

5: Gets warmer

6: Leave the pier

7: Real shocker

8: ER trainee (var.)

12: SPRING

16: Comfort enhancer

17: Lepidopterist's quarry

18: In the 'difficult years'

19: Young swans

20: Kitchen implement

22: Slender, graceful woman

26: Zip




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