Crossword for Tue, 4/Nov/2008

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Across
1: 'The Turn of the ___'

4: Highest level

9: Measure using trigonometry

10: Map abbr.

11: Beach frequenter

12: It requires no proof

14: Iron ___ (rust)

15: Mark Twain, to Samuel Langhorne Clemens

16: Odds and ends

21: Some salad ingredients

22: Digital hour and minute separator

23: A meter reader

25: Yuletide worker

27: Embodiment

29: Bygone cinema bonuses

30: Advent
Down
1: Go down

2: King's term

3: Aspirant, informally

4: Minor fix

5: Treeless tract

6: Downwind

7: Low-nosed fish

8: Heat-of-the-moment determiner

11: It's used to conceal actual plans

13: Travel stop

17: 'Silent' prez, familiarly

18: Morocco seaport

19: Eschew the landfill

20: Bedroom communities, often

21: Motley mix

24: Rock groups?

26: Not very many

28: Pay stub category




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