Crossword for Thu, 12/Nov/2009

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Across
1: Backed off, with 'up'

4: Lumber jacket pattern

7: Mao follower?

9: Pollen spreader

10: Unshockable

11: Commercial creators

13: Focus of attention

14: Spouse of Saturn

16: Any second now

18: September honoree

21: Thanksgiving staple

22: Site of the first nationally televised college basketball game

23: CandW's Travis

25: Rider on a crowded subway car

27: Cool dude

29: Long-faced

30: Haley's chronicle

31: Pun reaction, perhaps
Down
1: Fall off, as the tide

2: Type of whale

3: Smidge

4: Word after word, in math class

5: Belly

6: Ace in the hole business?

7: Humiliation

8: In the ___ of (among)

11: Together (with)

12: Egotistical conversationalist

15: Dispersed

17: Delicious

19: Guacamole ingredient

20: Comes out

22: Fools

24: Chip variety

26: Tasteless newspaper

28: Half a score




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