Crossword for Mon, 26/Dec/2011

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Across
1: Wide partner

5: Seized

9: Fork over

10: Old sports venues

11: Central

13: Potato, for one

14: Minor decline

16: Excessively distressed

17: Hardly generous

18: Pinpoint

20: Roadside eatery

21: It can put you on a different flight

23: Shed some light on

26: Nonreactive

27: 'The ___ are these, 'It might have been'' (Whittier)

28: Assistance

Down
1: Took by boat

2: Caesar, for one

3: 'Our father'

4: Big books

5: Guy's companion

6: Balaam's transport

7: Aristocrat

8: Runs away

12: Banquet emcee

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

15: Like leaves in 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'

17: Choice pieces of gossip

19: Picked up the tab

22: Madison Square Garden is one

24: Numbered hwy.

25: One living in a dump





Solution (Reversed)
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