Crossword for Tue, 9/Dec/2008

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Across
1: Happenings

6: Solzhenitsyn subject

9: Far from subtle

10: Pizzeria staple

11: Play enders, sometimes

12: Entomb

13: Wax producer

14: Soiled

16: Rooter's word

17: ''Falstaff'' mezzo-soprano

19: Bloomers at the Masters golf tournament

20: Tooth of a sort

21: Sternward

22: Crab Nebula origins

24: Employee of the state

26: Sense of completeness

27: Envelope closer

28: Getting on in years

Down
1: Saturate

2: Spy movie poison

3: Kind of terrapin

4: Spiker's barrier

5: Bootblack's offering

6: 'Wow!'

7: Major player?

8: Reporters' subject in February

12: Hardworking

13: Pompous

15: Takes up again

18: Camper's snack supply

20: Occlusion

23: Tip off

25: Music genre

26: Big house resident





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