Crossword for Sat, 18/Dec/2010

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Across
1: Three, so it's said

4: Contest competitor

9: Pinot Noir or Merlot

10: Old-time saloon

11: Had a feast

13: First head of Homeland Security

14: Remote room?

15: Entourage member, sometimes

18: A dynamic speaker, e.g.

21: Take wing

22: Put a new price on, say

24: Deft storyteller

27: Morning aftertaste

29: Tumultuous noise

30: Claims formally

31: Of the countryside
Down
1: Chocolate substitute

2: Law

3: Seduce

4: Long-necked wading bird

5: Golf ball supporter

6: Item disappearing from restaurants

7: Set straight

8: Soon

12: Given medicine

14: Shamed

16: Less friendly

17: Man on a diamond

19: Compact's lack

20: One with a spread

23: Schlepped

25: Huffs and puffs

26: Kidney-related

28: American voters before 1920




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