Crossword for Thu, 5/Jul/2007

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Across
1: Some acrobatic feats

6: Banquette

9: Femme fatale

10: Nonsense

11: Place (a bet)

12: What an orthodontist works on

13: Testy

16: Edible chart?

17: Gaping

18: Part of the evening news

21: Zoological duct

23: Deviation

24: Perch

25: Sailor, in slang

27: In need of fuel

28: The Kansas City Star and Baltimore Sun, e.g.

30: Correct text

31: Mica, shale, and butcher block
Down
1: Bleacher creature?

2: Ally

3: Her identity may be unknown to an adoptee

4: When tots take snoozes

5: Cutting language

6: Byte fraction

7: Diddly-squat

8: Country bumpkin

12: Keg access

14: Assume liability for, as another's loan

15: Hazarding a guess: worker with really good manners?

18: Brawl

19: Parents continuation, say

20: Item on a plan

22: Ready-go go-between

26: Pollen spreader

27: Took command

29: Pt. of CBS




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