Crossword for Wed, 7/Oct/2009

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Across
1: Deliverance

5: In accordance with reason

9: Tests for quality

10: Capture

11: Small intestine division

13: Tapes

16: Expostulatory

18: Bull's suggestion

19: 'Sure thing!'

20: Thing that conceals

22: Not very often

23: Escritoires

25: Zip

26: Bombshell

29: Large butterfly

30: Step on the gas, e.g.
Down
1: More posh

2: Contemptible person

3: Can opener?

4: Chow down

5: Outside consultants?

6: It's often stepped on

7: English landscape painter

8: Bio class setting

12: Inclination

13: Water moccasin

14: Holds out a carrot to

15: Undercover worker

17: Cantaloupe, for one

19: 'Good answer'

21: Without letup

24: Shaped like a watermelon

25: ___ de plume

26: Grizzled sailor

27: Beehives and pageboys

28: 'Sweet Pea' singer Tommy




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