Crossword for Sat, 16/Feb/2008

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Across
1: They can be deceiving

7: Corn unit

9: Scoundrel

10: Castles in the air

11: Give up the ghost

12: Tests for quality

14: Wets one's whistle

16: Formulated

17: Gathers up

20: Despair

22: Dryness when speaking

24: Male turkey

26: More combative

28: Half a million bimillennia

29: Division of geologic time

30: Ship's clock
Down
1: Caustic

2: Seasoning vegetable

3: Fearful request by the IRS, to some

4: Refuges

5: Word with pace or race

6: Dispersed

7: Slots' spots

8: Rumps, informally

13: Pocket locale, often

14: Easily angered

15: See

18: Craftsperson

19: Reckon, with 'up'

20: Lizard

21: Implore

23: Seraglio

25: Mount Vernon, e.g.

27: Equal footing




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