Crossword for Tue, 30/Oct/2007

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Across
1: Gardner's lawyer

4: 17-Across protagonist

8: Sailor, slangily

9: Program variable

11: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

12: Paycheck booster

14: Showy blooms

16: Rowdy

17: Joylessness

18: Modern writers' aids

22: Left orbit

23: Original sinner

24: Like some twins

25: They go into drives
Down
1: Change

2: More combative

3: Chilly

4: Dieter's concern

5: Bearings

6: Motivating

7: Frank or Joe of boys' books

10: One who keeps dropping things

13: Soothing, to the skin

14: Like Jeremiah

15: 'Arsenic and Old Lace' aunts, e.g.

19: Like a haunted house

20: Reef material

21: Finito




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