Crossword for Sat, 4/Oct/2008

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Across
1: More combative

6: 'A Tramp Abroad' author

9: Poster girl

10: Sighs, perhaps

11: Party for sheep shearers?

12: Modern writers' aids

13: Understanding

18: Mottled inlay material

21: Alfresco

22: Like some trigger fingers

23: Lake-bottom navigation impediments

24: Great seating for fights
Down
1: More foolish

2: Decide to look at more issues

3: Native American infant

4: Prohibited

5: Competitor's chance for redemption

6: On pins and needles

7: On the wagon

8: Periods of youthfulness

12: Crab Nebula origins

13: Does over, as a manuscript

14: Person to check out?

15: Hailing from the Orient

16: Pensive poems

17: Suffering sorts

19: Curses

20: Like a football




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