Crossword for Thu, 20/Dec/2007

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Across
1: Long-nosed fish

3: Excellent

9: Environmental condition

10: Oppressively humid

11: Dairy sound

12: Put a new price on, say

14: Where change is good

16: Cherry castoff

17: More than vexation

19: Confidence

21: Carved pole

23: Overlords

25: Backed off

26: Arm-twisted

27: Fashionable canine?

28: Poet's preposition
Down
1: MAKEUP

2: Oblong

3: In a lively manner

4: Judgment payout

5: Souvenirs

6: What Elizabeth Taylor has done seven times (so far)

7: Apprehension

8: Pivotal

13: Street urchin

15: Alpine phenomenon

16: Ask for change

18: Put hair dressing on

20: It may be found in a pit

22: In knots

24: Pick up the tab

25: All ___ (totally wrong)




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