Crossword for Mon, 5/Mar/2007

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Across
2: Arousing or holding the attention.

7: Vanity case?

9: Bk. before Philippians

11: Hydrocarbon suffix

12: Neb. neighbor

14: Swing wildly

15: Synonym of 'main'

17: Opposite of clean

18: Frat letters

20: A segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches.

21: Someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight.

23: An expenditure, effort, or loss; 'It ______ more to live in the city.'

24: Battery pole

25: Designer inits.

26: Opposite of start

28: 'You dirty ___!'

29: Feeling a need or desire to drink.

30: Opposite of opaque

Down
1: Patterned with alternating squares of color.

3: Opposite of generous

4: Explaining explicitly

5: 'You don't say'

6: 'I can see ______ now, the rain is gone.'

8: Gets it’s name because it looks like it’s praying.

10: Plural form of 'home.'

13: Easily agitated.

16: An adornment usually made of precious metals and set with gems.

19: Very, very old.

20: An acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.

21: Exact or accurate.

22: 'Look out, fox!'

27: Malaria stopper





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