Crossword for Thu, 6/Dec/2012

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Across
1: Toned down

4: Got away

9: Scoffed at

10: Type of cushion

11: Mark with graduations

13: Aspect

15: Four-poster, e.g.

16: Fashionable doggy?

18: Cool in a crisis

21: German physicist for whom an electrical unit is named

22: Gardner's lawyer

23: Helm handlers

24: State bird of Louisiana

26: Count out

28: Curtain adornments

29: The Golden Rule, for one
Down
2: Second day gift

3: Family man

4: Chess segment with few pieces on the board

5: Rancher on the range

6: Slip spotter

7: Party condiment

8: Cummerbund feature

9: Sound unit

12: Some traffic tie-ups

14: Dryness when speaking

17: Barbara Taylor Bradford's genre

19: Sum and substance

20: They cut calories

22: Looked depressed

25: ''___ It Be'' (Beatles)

27: Shuffleboard stick




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