Crossword for Thu, 25/Feb/2010

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Across
1: Fearful request by the IRS, to some

4: Some beach parties

8: More correct

9: Got away

11: Coward

12: KO caller

13: Primes the poker pot

14: Backyard structure for kids

15: Winner of eight Tonys for 2003

16: Pea pest

17: Fingerprinting need

18: G

20: Kind of shock

22: Return, of a sort

23: Creepy crawler

24: Auditions
Down
1: Chichi

2: Accept two contradictory ideas at the same time

3: Mottled inlay material

4: Act as a prompter in the theater

5: Subordinate

6: 4-H member, usually

7: White expanse

10: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

12: Theodore Roosevelt's group

13: Not inclined to believe

14: Drop cloth?

19: Some chilly models?

20: Bamboozle

21: Prior, to Poe




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