Crossword for Tue, 30/Dec/2008

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Across
1: Abandon hope

5: Fourth hitter in the batting order

8: Approximated

10: ___-relief

11: Rich guy, or friend of Gilligan

13: Scrooge's exclamation

14: Top hat accompaniment

15: Events with Jerry Lewis

16: Mattress-supporting frameworks

18: Song of the past

19: Van Gogh's love offering

20: Like some memos

22: Cause of inflation?

24: Satirized

26: State flower of North Carolina

27: One in the left lane, typically
Down
1: Bit of fact

2: Excellent speaker

3: Reaches

4: Expostulatory

5: Siamese or Persian

6: Lincoln loc.

7: P.D.Q.

9: Resided

12: Renowned

13: Unshockable

14: Mesa

17: Kind of offer

18: Playmaking group

21: Kind of down

23: Tease mercilessly

25: Stylish, in the '60s




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