Crossword for Tue, 10/Mar/2009

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Across
1: Root vegetable

5: Treading the boards

9: Sharply divided

10: Yuletide worker

11: Power company problems

13: Knobby

14: Broke in a canine?

16: Far from calm

17: Charged

19: Bottomless pits

21: Outfit

22: Perfidy

25: Dyer's tub

26: Twerp

28: Hose nozzle, e.g.

29: Guillotine and Oscar, e.g.
Down
1: Weight that sounds like a fruit

2: Strike

3: Chute material

4: Prevailed upon

5: Seeps slowly

6: Like a couch potato

7: Item on a plan

8: Arrangements, as of opposed mirrors, giving the effect of long vistas

12: Unwrought iron

14: Future reading material?

15: Deep-fried cornbread ball

16: Classic Schumann piano work

18: Muddle

20: 'Told ya!'

22: Disdainful-looking beast

23: Doctrine

24: 'Yowza!'

27: Pivotal




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