Crossword for Sun, 29/Oct/2006

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Across
1: Climactic move, often

6: Pizza boys do this with their pizzas.

8: An imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts; they often hide under your bed.

10: Squelched

12: A vertical line that indicates the end of a measure (music).

13: Blame, slangily

16: Taco alternative

18: The enclosed land around a house or other building.

19: Solution: Abbr.

21: To extinguish; 'Put ______ the fire.'

23: An object consisting of a circular frame that can rotate on a shaft or axle.

24: Inhabited as if by ghosts.

25: Exact or accurate.

26: Items seen during this time of year
Down
2: The creation of a new device or process.

3: The dividend of a fraction.

4: Lots of sunlight.

5: Allowing a choice.

7: Adam's donation

9: Synonym of 'exchange'

11: Series about countercultural crime fighters

14: Synonym of 'nonsense'

15: Synonym of 'escapee'

17: Some place.

20: A long narrow excavation in the earth, usually following alongside a road.

22: Answer to this puzzle's title and word that can come before the first word of 17-, 31-, 47-, or 63-Across




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