Crossword for Sat, 7/Dec/2013

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Across
1: Formulaic writing

7: Four-poster, e.g.

9: Scrutinized

10: Varlet

11: Fashionable doggy?

12: Match, in poker

13: Large antelope

15: One who mixes with Jim, Jack and Johnny?

16: Translate

20: Lab jobs

22: Half a score

23: Lewis Carroll poem

25: Go down

26: Site of the first nationally televised college basketball game

27: Musical note

28: Promotional lotteries
Down
1: Liable to crack

2: Magazine unit

3: Touched up

4: Seasoning vegetable

5: Reviewer of books

6: Back

7: Rumps, informally

8: Funeral hymn

14: Before birth

17: Culls

18: Chest protector

19: Rural skyline element

20: Harbor vessel

21: Artifice

22: Auditions

24: Frog's sound




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