Crossword for Wed, 5/Sep/2007

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Across
1: Vehicles powered by gravity

4: Bird balker

9: Atmospheric layer

10: Tea type

11: Stat in a pool

12: Electronic data transmission, briefly

14: Ransom note contents

16: Top with a slogan

17: Boondocks

20: Hazarding a guess: sidewalk engineer?

21: The powers that be

22: Savoir-faire

24: Ingenue's quality

25: Shape of the world

26: Tuckered out

29: Subdued, as an animal

30: Souvenirs

31: Richly-colored violet
Down
1: Derek Jeter, notably

2: Soothing, to the skin

3: Artists' buys

4: Maple tree yield

5: 'Shoot'

6: '... ___ I saw Elba'

7: Dan of 'Laugh-In'

8: Protective places

13: Streptococcus or staphylococcus

14: Articulation

15: Climber's goal

18: Clan members

19: Beatles classic

22: Monk's robe

23: Baronial

26: 'Now, where ___ I?'

27: First zoo?

28: Certain definitive response




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