Crossword for Wed, 21/Mar/2012

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Across
1: Put a strain on

3: Ottomans, e.g.

7: Scot-free

9: Napkin cloth

10: Starting place for a sledder

13: Loathes

15: Descriptive nickname

16: Foxlike

17: Vocal vibrato

18: Colorful socks

20: Shipboard direction

21: Professionals who might get your back up?

23: Puts in a box, perhaps

24: Big hit
Down
1: Second day gift

2: Kind of returns

3: Disgusting dirt

4: Campaigned for office

5: SWAT team specialists

6: Devious

7: BIG DIPPER

8: Most balmy

11: Three-horned dinosaur

12: Dryness when speaking

14: Thief

19: Fires

21: Beat walker

22: Coat of many colors?




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