Crossword for Tue, 19/Dec/2006

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Across
1: Relax a bit

4: Many of Uranus's are named after Shakespearean characters

8: Synonym of 'colorless'

9: '60s-'70s Rhodesian prime minister Smith

10: Opposite of teach

11: Sweet-talk

14: Given formally or officially.

15: Where it's hard to keep 'em after they see Paree

17: At 0 degrees longitude from which east and west are reckoned (usually the Greenwich, England longitude).

21: Synonym of 'family'

24: Fuzzy fruits

25: Needing

27: Wager

28: To move around on your belly on the ground.

30: Comparable to a beet

31: Opposite of inside

Down
2: Another name for a young goat.

3: Sally's husband in the comic strip 'Sally Forth'

4: Pastor's place

5: Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.

6: Antonym of 'finish.'

7: Synonym of 'country'

8: The point within the earth where an earthquake rupture starts.

9: Opposite of deteriorate

12: Use an abacus

13: Cut grass

16: Feeling a need or desire to drink.

17: Public image

18: Variety

19: Opposite of old

20: Socket in a golfer's iron

22: '___ luck!'

23: Synonym of 'true'

26: Warm lining

28: Rhymes with 'bat'

29: Folk singer DiFranco





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