Crossword for Sat, 5/Dec/2009

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Across
1: Gestational carrier

5: Lost intentionally

8: Popeye's gal

9: Overbearing pride

11: Convince

12: Ace with an attitude

14: Too bad

17: Piercing

21: Early arrival

23: Math figure

24: Nod

26: Test

27: Caterwauls

28: Tab provider?
Down
1: Program-provider

2: Bring back together

3: Ignore the alarm

4: Market watcher

5: Like close friends

6: Took a powder

7: Engage in a smackdown

10: Treatment center goal

13: Small hoverer

15: Shoulder board (Var.)

16: Specialty of Edward Scissorhands

18: Medea, to Perses

19: Betting advisor, perhaps

20: Not so rough

22: Encounters

25: Rarer than rare




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