Crossword for Wed, 5/Sep/2012

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Across
1: Tree with tough, useful wood

3: Some refrigerator contents

8: North German citizen

9: Ease off, as rain

11: Saturn model

12: Subdued

15: 2000 film garnering Best Picture and Best Actor honors

16: Swindle

17: ''Cat got your tongue?'' e.g.

18: Nutty Professor's ice cream preference?

21: Pest exterminators [up to 112 pounds]

23: Catholic ending

24: Union demand

26: Test administrators

28: Most puzzle constructors

29: Part of SSS
Down
1: Repeating

2: Any second now

3: Manhattan Project element

4: Newspaper, derogatorily

5: Window deicer

6: Give permission for

7: Like cherries jubilee

10: Man on a mission

13: Dinner table exhortation

14: Teddy's outfit

16: Leather wine holders

17: Deduce

18: Decorative design

19: Grant an interview to

20: Absorption process

22: Large chunk of cheese

25: Outrage

27: Pub pour




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