Crossword for Mon, 6/Jul/2009

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Across
1: Breakfast staple

4: Hard-to-please type

8: ___ Valley (resort near Lake Tahoe)

9: Treat, as bottled water

11: Type of alcohol

12: What some are allergic to

13: Thoroughbred, or Dracula's obsession?

16: Grand celebrations

17: Kick out

19: Sites

21: Engagement ring choice

23: Intestinal

25: Checks

26: Andes pack animal

27: Expanded

28: Some woodwinds
Down
1: Tend to a turkey

2: Pestle, e.g.

3: Staircase post

4: Place to rest one's tootsies

5: Fashion sense

6: Before takeoff

7: Purple gemstones

10: Perpendicular to radial

13: Work burdens

14: Two-sided

15: Diminished

18: Clobbers with snowballs

20: Mint family herb

22: Imbecile

23: Block house?

24: '03 or '04, e.g.




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