Crossword for Sun, 7/Sep/2008

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Across
1: Short manuscripts

3: Embodiment

7: Unit of electric charge

9: Confines

11: Lifeguard

12: More sardonic

13: En ___ (all together)

15: Newscast honcho

16: Reserve

18: Top hat accompaniment

21: Invalidate legally

22: Cooks up

24: Type of law or arts

25: Metered vehicle

26: Like dime novels

27: General address
Down
1: Paving material

2: Country gentlemen

3: Wrinkle removers

4: Understanding

5: Starch used as a binder or thickener

6: Atomic particle

8: Flowering shrub of the four-o'clock family

10: Language quirk

14: New York state motto ('ever upward')

16: Shell purchase

17: Hi-fi equipment

19: Bugs

20: Barrier that bumps boat bottoms

23: Put a strain on




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