Crossword for Tue, 4/Sep/2007

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Across
1: Scalawag

7: Scuff up

9: Turn right

10: Sports judge

11: Recurring theme

12: Public speaker's skill

14: François's diacritic

15: Mint or thyme, e.g.

17: Primitive weapon

19: Barbary Coast pirate

20: Prepare to fly

22: Launches an attack on

24: Layered dessert

25: Downed

26: Dennis the Menace, e.g.

28: Tyke

29: ___ Luis Obispo

30: Carpenters visit them
Down
1: Prepare to try again

2: Inferior rhymer of verses

3: Blackguard

4: Southpaw

5: Easily angered

6: Egotistical conversationalist

7: Mercury, for one

8: Song's chorus

13: Working

16: Lecture around the country

18: Insurer

19: Lunar landscape features

21: They're left behind

23: Smooth fabric

24: Value highly

27: Emolument




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