Crossword for Wed, 27/Jan/2010

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Across
1: It's a drag on a gown

4: Tart fruit

9: Coral reef

10: Italian meal starter, perhaps

11: Part of CBS: Abbr.

12: Any second now

13: Kind of shock

15: Ears or eyes?

16: Shape of a Mandelbrot set

18: Paving material named for a Scottish engineer

20: Surgery is rarely recommended for it these days

23: Cyclotron bit

25: They may say 'uncle'

26: Bumbling

27: Old Greek fortification

28: Orzo or ziti

Down
2: Awakening

3: Diddly-squat

4: Stake

5: __ self-defense

6: They can be deceiving

7: Female flower parts

8: Environmental group functioning as a unit

9: Balaam's mount

12: Climber's goal

13: School room

14: Slim swimmer

15: 'I wonder...'

17: Ring-shaped

19: Chauffeurs, for example

21: Knock down

22: They're held for questioning

24: Kook

26: Mischievous individual





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