Crossword for Thu, 21/Feb/2008

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Across
1: Wedding page word

3: Casual chair

7: 'The law is a ___, a idiot': Dickens

9: Go, with 'on down'

10: Tough-skinned mammals

11: Apiary occupant

12: Well-dressed dummy?

13: Kitten's cry

14: Vibrating

16: Problem for Jonah

18: Buttermilk, to Dale Evans

19: Distract from the main subject

20: Kind of moron?

22: Less populated

24: Include

25: Small hoverer

27: Minor player, so to speak

29: Piano man Charles

30: Soldier's shoulder piece

31: Goof up
Down
1: Apprehend

2: Former ironer?

3: Scrooge's exclamation

4: Colorado ski resort

5: Dunce

6: SPRING

7: Morning rouser

8: Stranded, in a way

11: Her identity may be unknown to an adoptee

12: Bit of high jinks

15: Oldies evocation

17: Snow fall?

21: Delicious

23: Ice cream pattern

26: Morse code component

28: Long-nosed fish




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