Crossword for Tue, 4/Mar/2008

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Across
1: Fare in bowls

4: Withdrawn

8: Baseball team less one

9: Self-appointed lawman

10: Speculative stock, or Dracula when hopped-up?

12: Church music

15: Para-aminobenzoic acid, e.g.

17: Magistrate

18: Kind of strength

19: Gathered

20: Community character

22: Natural magnet

24: Canned fruit

27: Distribute

28: Sign a check's back

29: One who accepts charges
Down
1: Packed items that might take a number?

2: Put on sale, perhaps

3: Skilled craftsman

4: Tease mercilessly

5: Whence the uvula dangles

6: Barbie's ex-beau

7: Tossed cube

9: Phone convenience

11: Great seating for fights

13: Re ocean motion

14: Fashionable doggy?

16: Last inning, usually

17: Auto boost?

21: Take the rudder

23: Looked lustfully at

24: Chart shape

25: Call it quits

26: Contend




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