Crossword for Thu, 24/Oct/2013

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Across
1: Visual aids

5: Snowbank

7: Book of synonyms

9: They fly in skeins

11: Wintery downpour

13: Pulitzer Prize category since 1970

15: Register

16: Perform aerial stunts, perhaps

17: Nader and others

20: Blockhead

21: Shade of yellow

22: More skillful

23: It is 'Heaven's first law'

25: Crop protector

28: Contributed to an IRA

29: Press secretary, e.g.
Down
1: Have

2: Prior to, in poems

3: Kind of pipe

4: More apt to talk back

5: Used a spade

6: Heat-of-the-moment determiner

8: Take turns

10: View from the top?

11: Artists' buys

12: Gave to another for care

14: Be behind

18: Prepares for display, perhaps

19: Tony, for one

24: Checkers side

26: St. Louis gridder

27: Ghostly




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