Crossword for Wed, 27/Aug/2008

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Across
1: Salon stylist

7: Cribbage piece

9: Motel event, perhaps

10: Diminutive dessert?

11: Place (a bet)

12: Flashcards, for example

13: Math term

17: Apprehend

19: The 'S' in CBS: Abbr.

20: Holiday pie choice

21: Easy chair features

23: Uncooked

25: 'Pirates of the Caribbean' weapons

26: Lightweight fabric

27: Cubby hole?

28: Promotional lotteries

Down
1: In a malicious manner

2: Pastoral poem

3: Like one whose elevator doesn't go all the way to the top

4: Occur as a result

5: Employee of a major bicycle manufacturing company?

6: Taciturnity

7: Not out of the question

8: Conjecture

14: NBC?

15: Checks

16: Vacation split

18: Army attackers

21: Cheated, in slang

22: Online VIP

23: Steelworker's pin

24: Umpire's home plate cleaner





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