Crossword for Wed, 19/Nov/2008

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Across
1: Cascades

6: Grind one's teeth

9: Former boxer?

10: Writing contest entry, often

11: Cord in some backyards

14: Robot's lack

15: All done

16: Recoil

18: Diminutive dessert?

22: A dynamic speaker, e.g.

23: Coke nuts

25: Like some sacred music

27: Matzohs lack it

28: Show by drawing
Down
1: Bullies

2: Pacific threat

3: Theodore Roosevelt's group

4: Rotter

5: Conjecture

6: 'I'll be!'

7: Guaranteed

8: Rube

12: Gluttony, e.g.

13: Hazarding a guess: manager of a political candidate?

16: Irish coffee ingredient

17: Long short story

18: Prepared clams, maybe

19: Fluid on a dipstick

20: They're found in the back

21: Otalgia

24: Shooting location

26: Impresario Hurok




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