Crossword for Wed, 22/Aug/2007

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Across
1: Surgery sites, briefly

3: Piercing

8: MAKEUP

9: Siamese or Persian

10: Unselfish sort

12: Nearness

13: Modern writers' aids

15: Worst one to handle packages

20: One who moves to another country

22: Accidental decline

23: 4-H member, usually

24: Embodiment

27: Concerns for ecologists

28: Josh

Down
1: Assn.

2: Vest's lack

3: Dads, to many

4: Relating to a wedding

5: Defeat all comers

6: __ self-defense

7: Street urchin

9: Craft entered gingerly

10: Slacker

11: Superman who was a super man

14: Bass basket, perhaps

16: Lacking backbone

17: Part of a freight train

18: Temperaments

19: More foolish

21: Part of a Charlie Brown catchphrase

25: Balaam's rebuker

26: Apprehend





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