Crossword for Sun, 20/Nov/2011

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Across
1: Lab research animal

5: Of finer quality

9: Tend to a loose shoelace

10: Thousands of years

11: Humdingers

13: Nod

14: Sudden burst of energy

16: Apparitions

17: Starch-yielding plant

19: Like a primer

21: 29-Down fears them

22: Leisure time activity

24: 'On the Waterfront' extra

26: ___ Valley (resort near Lake Tahoe)

27: Meet expectations

28: To begin with
Down
1: Ushers in

2: Mercury, for one

3: Comfy shirt

4: St. Louis gridder

5: What impatient children do?

6: Pig out

7: General agreement

8: Theater districts

12: Dim ___

15: Covenant

16: Study of speech sounds

17: Germfree state

18: Untrustworthy sorts

19: Scrooge's epithet

20: Department-store plan, perhaps

23: State impulsively, with 'out'

25: Yuletide worker

26: Round Table title




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