Crossword for Tue, 26/Oct/2010

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Across
1: Spot for a baptism

5: It may have shortcuts

9: Rare-earth element

10: Carnivorous fish

11: Conclusion

13: BIRD

16: Customs officer's concern

18: Muscle car, say

20: Country bumpkin

21: Shed some light on

22: Bit of high jinks

24: Total

25: Orange butterfly

28: Stranger in a strange land

30: Essex, e.g.

31: Caused to hobble
Down
1: In a crude and unskilled manner

2: It paves the way

3: Horse holders

4: Groups of people

5: Tango maneuver

6: Vehicle on Boston's Green Line

7: X rating?

8: Board

12: Tipsy

14: Hardly generous

15: Bodies of work

17: State flower of Nebraska

19: Approximated

22: Theater fare

23: Of the same rank

26: ''My Mother the ___'' ('60s TV show)

27: Thanksgiving staple

29: An end to alcohol and sex?




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