Crossword for Sat, 9/Aug/2008

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Across
1: Reserve

5: Stations

8: 'O frabjous day!' source

10: Tease mercilessly

11: Fourth hitter in the batting order

13: View spoiler

14: Palatable

15: One in rehab for chatting too much?

18: Lice and the like

20: Make indistinct

23: Kangaroos, at times

26: Spar part

27: Inch fraction

28: Drew Barrymore to Steven Spielberg

30: Religious repast

31: Mailing address
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1: Culls

2: Stick on a table

3: Paper for the paper

4: Show host

5: Check recipient, usually

6: Repentant miser

7: Slice

9: Obscenity substitute, perhaps

12: Michelangelo's 'David,' and others

16: They won't give you a hard time

17: Potato, for one

18: Nightclothes

19: Went on and on

21: Represent onstage

22: Self-reproach

24: Itching (to)

25: Kosher meal

29: Creator of the universe




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