Crossword for Mon, 11/Dec/2006

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1: Glass or plastic vessels used for holding liquids.

5: Synonym of 'boring'

7: A substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic.

8: Bedding that keeps a person warm.

11: A sum of money paid; 'She still has to make her car ______ this month.'

12: Opposite of peace

14: Look forward to

15: Scrooge, e.g.

16: Craving

17: Members of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids.

19: To arouse strong feeling in; circus performers know how to get the audience ______.

20: Listening to an insufferable bore, often

22: A month falling in autumn.

23: Unending
Down
1: Opposite of nice

2: 'You're fired!' utterer

3: Go broke in Vegas

4: The month following August and preceding October.

5: It's tough to break one

6: Synonym of 'appear'

9: End of the good advice

10: Jackie Gleason's epitaph

12: A female sorcerer.

13: An adult female person.

14: A wild and exciting undertaking.

17: Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.

18: Establish the validity of something by example.

21: Designer inits.




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