Crossword for Sat, 9/Feb/2008

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Across
1: Kitchen riser

4: Victoria’s Secret offerings

8: Rice field

9: Tough nut to crack

10: Coquettish

11: Thing that conceals

12: Just released

14: With no sign of giving in

16: Petro purchase measure

17: Kind of buddy

18: Bony-plated beast

20: Close your i's

21: Kind of terrapin

23: 'Golly!'

24: Setter fetter

25: It requires no proof

27: Explosive concoction

28: Kerchief

Down
1: Shrill bark

2: Input for a recorder

3: Stew seasoning

4: Ape

5: Christie product

6: Caused umbrellas to open

7: Crafty

10: BIG DIPPER

11: Ran through

13: Male witch

15: Bony-plated beast

18: Impossible to move

19: Common gallinule

22: ''___ of a Salesman''

23: Practical joke

26: Flowery month





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