Crossword for Thu, 3/Dec/2009

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Across
1: Stuffed

4: Bright ray

8: San Francisco transport

11: Runner of a sort

12: Scoundrel

13: Stellar stars

14: Noble jurisdiction

15: Make big bucks

16: Bowler's aim

19: Pasta dish

22: Balance sheet positive

23: Dream up

24: Standard of perfection

25: Bright red in summer

27: Walks like a prima donna

28: Lack of inhibition
Down
1: Spouse of Saturn

2: Closer to the beginning of time

3: Lost it

5: Name on a ballot

6: Invigorate

7: Place to haggle

9: Like a solemn observance

10: Scalawag

12: Prohibition-era fixtures

17: Empty ___ (many seniors)

18: Kneecap

20: Kitchen implement

21: Showed delight

26: Iniquity setting




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