Crossword for Fri, 24/Apr/2009

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Across
1: Blessings

6: About a drop

9: Certain speaker

10: Perfectly OK

11: Thing that conceals

12: It's in the pits

14: Most puzzle constructors

16: Job that involves ladder climbing

21: A bar owner might run one

23: A jab well done

25: August

26: Ground, as one's teeth

27: Stainless steel or brass

28: In the same vein
Down
1: Build up

2: Hardly fine literature

3: Alone, when preceded by 'by'

4: Cosmopolitan component

5: Like Max Ernst's art

6: Skin pigment

7: Elie Wiesel work

8: Drivers

13: School room

15: Former boxer?

17: Weakness

18: Feud feeders

19: Source of income for many island nations

20: Music performance

22: Circular deli treat

24: Diary bit




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