Crossword for Fri, 1/Jan/2010

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Across
1: State flower of North Carolina

5: Two-piece chest

8: One who keeps dropping things

10: Jukebox choice

12: Certifies, as colleges

13: Insincere ladies' men

14: Professionals who might get your back up?

18: Rhymester

19: Begin

21: Stage of advancement

23: Halves

24: 1980 Oscar winner Hutton
Down
1: They carry balances

2: Privacy-protected (as an estate)

3: Metal source

4: More than uncooperative

5: Old maintenance vehicle

6: Baby baskets

7: Egg parts

9: Stairway alternatives

11: Baroque

13: They're loaded

15: Does a second draft

16: Small crown

17: Nervous

18: Weight that sounds like a fruit

20: 'You must have grown ___!'

22: Reckon, with 'up'




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