Crossword for Tue, 5/Aug/2008

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Across
2: Change

8: Crash into on purpose

9: Second day gift

11: Beauty display

14: Wrinkle remover

17: Extreme

18: Following

19: Discounts considerably

21: Cultivate

22: Academic type

23: Most promising

24: Her identity may be unknown to an adoptee

27: Watch chain

28: Wrongdoer's bane
Down
1: Roundabout expression

2: May celebrant

3: Little one

4: Like some vows

5: Recovery setback

6: 'I've ___ it up to here!'

7: Pt. of CBS

10: Entryway

12: 17-Across protagonist

13: Fifth element?

15: Guarantees

16: Too bad

20: Repentant miser

21: Tusked sea mammal

24: Curtain call response

25: Ring toss item?

26: Like bad deals

27: Cone producer




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