Crossword for Tue, 5/May/2009

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Across
1: Very cold

3: Stalag number in a classic film

8: Team that's never won a Super Bowl

10: 'Nip/Tuck' procedures

11: Short-lived

12: Briquette, eventually

14: Zola's literary style

17: Fujiyama feature

19: Making a point?

20: Lacking details

21: Space __

22: Frizz tamer

25: Kind of address

28: Bill worth billions

29: Earth mover

30: Chasm
Down
1: State flower of Nebraska

2: King Richard's epithet

3: Not so chancy

4: Singers

5: It means nothing

6: Present wrapper, maybe

7: Brown-___ (sycophant)

9: Dim ___

12: Crumble away

13: Boondocks

15: Moron

16: Unit of frequency

18: Mental aberration

21: Head up

23: Loafer

24: A sucker holds it

26: Without exception

27: Knock (about)




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