Crossword for Tue, 10/Oct/2006

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Across
1: Checkers opening?

3: Originality, creativeness.

7: The period of time that is happening now.

8: Cook, as vegetables

9: One of these will always be at the beginning of a sentence.

11: Rejections

12: To have run.

13: An acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.

15: An important question that is in dispute.

17: Airtight sealed metal container for food, drink, paint, etc.

18: Actress ___ Dawn Chong

22: This kind of doctor works on your teeth.

23: Being derived from.

24: Get me 'one more'.

25: Quip, part 3

26: Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.

Down
1: The naval officer in command of a military ship.

2: There are many different ______ that one can do to get in shape.

3: Opposite of experienced

4: 'That's expensive!'

5: Plural form of 'item.'

6: Charge with a function; charge to be; 'She was ______ Head of the Committee.'

8: Explaining explicitly

10: A browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun.

14: Having surface damage.

16: 'Her ______ is 1833 Oakwood Drive.'

17: Opposite of pro

19: Advanced in years; '______ residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper.'

20: Taunts

21: Reduced to the simplest form possible.





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