Crossword for Sun, 3/Dec/2006

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Across
1: Possessive form of 'it.'

3: The mother of your father or mother.

6: Public hangings?

7: Support

9: You can often find this animal at a large aquarium.

11: Regardless of, in defiance of.

13: Maple fluid

15: Synonym of 'escapee'

17: Clairvoyance, e.g.

18: 1949 UN entrant

19: Someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university.

21: '__ Day Will Come'

22: Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision.

23: A specific practice of long standing.

25: Synonym of 'fairy'

26: Pop the question

27: Series set on a cruise ship

28: Cereal staple
Down
1: Originality, creativeness.

2: A group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used; a ______ of golf clubs.

3: An insect.

4: An informal term for a father; rhymes with 'sad.'

5: Move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time.

8: Hung on a line, maybe

10: As the factory exploded in the distance, James mumbled to himself, 'I hate it when this ______.'

12: Auricle

13: Quip, part 3

14: A large grocery store.

16: Of great consequence.

19: Babe, e.g.

20: Talk from the soapbox

23: PC component

24: Sault ___ Marie

26: In the past.




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