Crossword for Wed, 1/Jul/2009

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Across
1: Hostility

6: Bygone anesthetic

9: Not very often

10: Fleshy

11: Femme fatale

13: Anarchic

14: Ampersand follower, often

15: Squeezed (out), as wet towels

16: Nouveau ___

18: Pipsqueak

20: Standoffish

22: Blazed the trail

24: Snoopy's comic strip

26: Way of thinking

27: Just-hatched hooter

28: Carries on

30: Religious retreat

31: Puts another way

Down
1: Takes on

2: Nearness

3: Beat in a gunfight

4: Distinctive doctrine

5: ''Yer darn tootin'''

6: Give authority to

7: Theater audience

8: Comeback

12: Ifs, ands and buts, e.g.

13: First-class advantage

17: Old sports venues

18: Pudding choice

19: Chicks and ducks and geese

21: Comparatively more comical

23: Can't stand

25: Unscripted remark

28: Part of a train

29: Catch some z's





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