Crossword for Sun, 3/Feb/2008

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Across
1: Less couth

5: Like vocabulary

8: Mottled inlay material

11: Power source

12: Artist's support

13: Not that bad

16: 'Grand Canyon' or 'Water Music'

17: Computer bulletin board administrator, for short

19: Jelled

21: Strips

22: Used a thermostat, say

25: The story of my life?

27: San Francisco conveyance

28: Target of tweezers
Down
1: Siamese or Persian

2: Bakery garb

3: Meticulous searcher

4: Like a VCR after a power outage

6: Heavenly

7: Cool in a crisis

9: Walter Reed, e.g.

10: Vase-shaped pitchers

11: MAKEUP

14: Bold outlaw

15: Masseur's offering

18: Assume as a fact

20: Broaden

23: Guardian of underground treasures

24: Snooty critter?

26: Archery bow wood




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