Crossword for Sun, 17/Mar/2013

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Across
2: Coming forth

6: Room with a number of wives

9: Toothed turner

10: Wounded in the bullring

11: Off-the-wall play

13: Happens to

14: Smidge

15: Blameworthiness

17: A dynamic speaker, e.g.

18: Check

20: A or C

22: Rodeo competitor

24: Elie Wiesel work

25: Real

27: Pays to play

28: Lays to rest
Down
1: State flower of North Carolina

2: Easily angered

3: Runoff collector

4: Wrath

5: Bile container

6: Speculative stock, or Dracula when hopped-up?

7: Of the countryside

8: Victorian virtue

12: Rich guy, or friend of Gilligan

15: Pen pals?

16: They may be special

17: Springbok's habitat

19: Trachea branches

21: Closely constrained

23: Rainbow maker

26: Feline, to Tweety




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