Crossword for Mon, 25/Feb/2008

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Across
1: Daytona 500 entry

4: Some reds

7: Bridge position

9: Deadlock

11: Feed one's face

12: Certain rattlesnake or terrapin

14: Computer information unit

16: Slip back, as into illness

17: User's helper

18: Baseball position

20: Three-horned dinosaur

22: Have title to

23: Endangered Florida creature

25: Plush rooms

26: Another helping

27: Singers of 'I'm a Believer'?
Down
1: Assure the accuracy of

2: BIG DIPPER

3: Healed

4: Professionals who might get your back up?

5: Mont Blanc, for one

6: Make dots

8: Insincere ladies' men

10: SWAT team specialists

13: Blue-and-white pottery

15: Ball bigwig

17: Lays to rest

19: Irritates

21: Your umbrella, perhaps

24: Half a score




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