Crossword for Fri, 2/Mar/2007

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Across
1: Electrical unit represented by 46-Down

4: The general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time.

8: Above average in size, number, or quantity.

9: Advanced in years.

10: He is very busy and must make many phone ______ a day.

12: The best people or things in a group; the ______ of the crop.

14: To be very upset.

15: Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.

16: Museum pieces

17: Dadaist Jean

18: Research setting

20: Collar

22: A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.

23: Trivial ending

24: An informal term for a father; rhymes with 'sad.'

25: A justification for something existing or happening; 'He had no ______ to complain.'

26: Thin pointed pieces of metal that are hammered into materials as fasteners.

28: Go on until

29: Plural form of 'item.'

31: Contraction for 'it is.'

33: The past tense of 'purchase.'

34: According to popular legend, lives at the North Pole and makes toys for Santa Claus.
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1: Sphere, to Shelley

2: Possessing supernatural powers.

3: Became separated into pieces or fragments.

4: Roll-your-own grass

5: Synonym of 'end'

6: Antonym of 'legal.'

7: Opposite of nice

11: Past tense of 'blow'.

13: The subject that teaches you that 2 + 2 = 4.

14: Put into service.

16: Stopped sleeping

19: To a severe or serious degree.

21: A large mass of rock detached from its original place.

24: Regardless of, in defiance of.

25: Opposite of expensive

27: Debate topic

30: Antonym of 'beginning.'

32: Personal ad letters




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