Crossword for Sun, 28/Dec/2008

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Across
1: Natural ability

4: Oboes, e.g.

7: Not at work

9: Charity event

10: Elementary science?

11: Crossed diagonally, say

12: Muscle power

13: Tropical fruits

14: One beyond belief?

17: Touched up

18: Sack time

19: Hooting cry of excitement

22: Thing featuring the sands of time

23: Make tawdry

24: Not perpendicular

26: Craving

27: Cop game

28: More wise
Down
1: Watch chain

2: Pain in the neck

3: Held one's temper

4: Second tries on the set

5: African antelope

6: Religious denominations

7: It covers much of the Earth

8: Pest exterminators [up to 112 pounds]

11: Poem with a jubjub bird and a tumtum tree

15: Kind of figure

16: Restating

18: Sit on

20: The wide blue yonder?

21: Infield fly

22: Reddish orange dye

25: Toothy snouted fish




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