Crossword for Sat, 3/May/2008

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Across
1: It's after Letterman, for many

4: Corn unit

8: Makes a break

10: Hotbed for baby bloomers

11: What impatient children do?

12: Lost intentionally

13: Prepare to try again

15: Most economical

16: A vamp may bat one

17: Theatrical professional

18: Bristles

19: Bearing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled

21: Steward

23: Saltpeter, for one

25: Thumbs up

26: Took by boat
Down
1: Busy creature

2: NASCAR car sticker

3: Do Miss Piggy, say

4: BIG DIPPER

5: Exclude

6: Dark

7: Pest exterminators [up to 112 pounds]

9: SWAT team specialists

11: Foundation

12: Banquet figure

14: Enormousness

20: Congo rainforest denizen

22: Devious

24: Break off




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