Crossword for Wed, 26/Nov/2008

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Across
1: Her identity may be unknown to an adoptee

7: Poke

9: Someone or something special

10: Dryness when speaking

11: Wrap

12: Romeo's move

14: Harangues

15: Spread out

16: Catcher's apparatus

20: One way or another

23: Femme fatale

24: Cager's credits

25: Hazarding a guess: cabbie who gets under your skin?

26: Opposite of paleo-

28: Blob of used gum

29: Place to haggle
Down
1: Brown paper container

2: Turpentine, e.g.

3: Gave Dangerfield no respect, e.g.

4: Relative of a nautilus

5: Cheers

6: Dismissal, as from an office

7: Travel

8: 'Phooey!'

13: Provide with funds

14: Carved pole emblem

17: Taken over, in a way

18: Noble jurisdiction

19: Kind of butterfly

20: Ocean liner?

21: Slip

22: Palm Sunday salute

25: T-bar offering

27: Prospector's find




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