Crossword for Tue, 3/Feb/2009

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Across
1: Shoring up

4: Backslide

8: Fertile loam

10: Selling point

11: Tiny amount

12: Chest protector

14: Bombshell

16: Like Mozart's music

17: Magnetic mineral

19: In a different manner

22: Language quirk

23: Construction site creation

25: Skye cap

26: Zip

27: Keenly desirous

28: Elie Wiesel work

30: Fruit-filled pastry

31: Frankenstein creation
Down
1: Campanologist's pants?

2: Pilsner alternative

3: Moderate

4: Lived

5: Metric quart

6: Hazarding a guess: sidewalk engineer?

7: Wrap up

9: Colonizer

13: Second-stringer

15: Heat-of-the-moment determiner

18: Little bit

20: Not kosher

21: Witticism

24: Wicked one

26: Zoological duct

29: Place for a feeling




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