Crossword for Tue, 2/Dec/2008

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Across
1: Improves, as a road

4: Young vegetable shoot

9: One whose goose is cooked

10: Old home owner, often

11: 'Good answer'

12: Working here and there

14: Period free from punishment

16: Alone, when preceded by 'by'

18: Patella

21: Scrapbook item

24: Certain researcher

27: Spill the beans

28: Self-employed professional

30: Muscle car, say

31: Ornamental ribbons

32: Signs, to the superstitious
Down
1: Where one's first savings are deposited?

2: Deer meat

3: Machine-guns from a plane

4: Jibe

5: Advisory group

6: Whodunit motive

7: 'I ___ You Babe' (Sonny and Cher hit)

8: Parsley piece

13: Furious feeling

15: Talk foolishly

16: Resistance unit

17: Boundaries

19: 'Maid of Athens, ___ we part': Byron

20: François's diacritic

22: Soft goatskin leather

23: Cultivate

24: Piccolo alternatives

25: Small amount

26: What believers may fall on

29: Auditory apparatus




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