Crossword for Wed, 18/Mar/2009

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Across
1: Cord in some backyards

7: Where film rolls

9: Flabbergasted

10: Pie-in-the-face sound

11: Silly as a goose

13: Old PC interface

14: Speared vegetable

16: Oscar de la ___

18: Downsizes

20: Integrated circuit piece

23: Inch fraction

24: Type of parrot

25: ''The Odd Couple,'' e.g.

27: Closeness

29: Light color?

30: Fashionable canine?
Down
1: One with an ace up his sleeve?

2: Using the numerals 0 through 7

3: Ghost

4: Moving like a crab

5: Raids

6: Opposite of fast

7: San Francisco bread

8: Accepts uncomplainingly

12: Dine, in this puzzle

15: Lost

17: Former ironer?

19: 'Cogito, ergo __'

20: Streptococcus or staphylococcus

21: Herd-following nester

22: Prison's antithesis, with 'the'

23: Very important

26: Dogma

28: Finesse




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