Crossword for Thu, 17/Jul/2008

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Across
1: Ultimate loss leader

5: Elaborate plans

9: Highest

10: Early arrival

11: Produce in a hurry, with 'out'

12: Michelangelo's 'David,' and others

13: Tree fluid

14: Hot time

17: Balance sheet positive

19: Grimm characters

20: Twerp

21: 'Understand?'

23: Madras master

26: Stuff

27: Atomic particle

28: Place for a rubber duck

30: Lays to rest

31: Mayflower passenger
Down
1: Like a fiddle?

2: Former boxer?

3: Power company problems

4: Packed away

5: Palatable

6: Follows closely, as a dog

7: Internal notes

8: Promotional lotteries

11: Good judgment

15: Navigator's need

16: One's good name, briefly

17: Defendant's hope

18: Finch variety

22: Cease being dormant

23: Hit strings

24: Suggests, with 'at'

25: Jazz genre

29: Bleacher creature?




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