Crossword for Thu, 14/Dec/2017

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Across
1: Panama ___

4: Unfailing

9: Satirized

10: On-ramp sign

11: Part of a tiger's arsenal

13: Links' rara avis

15: Costa del ___

16: Tart fruit

18: Hosiery material

20: Weasel kin

21: Impertinence

22: Fall off, as the tide

24: Relax

25: Speaks facetiously

26: Entomb

27: Pulitzer Prize category since 1970

30: Getting on in years

31: Wool source
Down
1: Play for a sap

2: Nice handle

3: Savanna predators

4: Its arch might be plain or tented

5: Long-lived

6: Plant of the primrose family

7: Folklore giants

8: Most puzzle constructors

11: Big books

12: Separated

14: MAKEUP

17: United ways?

19: Freeway divisions

23: Boston skater

25: Slammers

27: Act as a prompter in the theater

28: Most of Antarctica

29: Swab




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