Crossword for Sat, 5/May/2007

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Across
1: Deals (with), as a problem

3: Boston Pops, e.g.

7: Restaurant unit

9: Sot's spot

10: Redden

11: Star seen late at night

13: Burdened

14: Pandemonium

15: Diamond flub

17: Swell

19: Approximated

21: Medal, maybe

22: Drop cloth?

23: Vichyssoise veggies

24: Cleo's downfall

26: Levees

27: Estrange

28: Y chromosome carriers

Down
1: Gus McRae's occupation in 'Lonesome Dove'

2: Sound reproduction systems

3: Eyeball

4: Ship's clock

5: Flabbergasted

6: White as a ghost

8: One who keeps dropping things

10: Favorite at the ball

12: Place to haggle

16: Indemnifications

18: Fabric measures

20: Paving material named for a Scottish engineer

21: Put in the cup

25: Cherry castoff





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