Crossword for Thu, 8/Apr/2010

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Across
1: Bumbling

4: Splash

8: Transpire

9: It can put you on a different flight

11: 'Silent' prez, familiarly

12: Rider on a crowded subway car

13: Telling it like it isn't

15: Lacking compassion

18: Bilko and Pepper

21: Re ocean motion

22: Second-stringer

25: One's good name, briefly

26: They get it

27: Peasant shoe

28: Leadfoot

29: 'They Died With ___ Boots On'

Down
1: Having two equal sides

2: New York state motto ('ever upward')

3: Tuckers out

5: Ticket profiteer

6: Turn up?

7: Vocal effect

9: 'Beat it!'

10: Be on the side of caution?

14: Type of bus

16: Not that bad

17: Naturally occurring potassium nitrate

19: Least slovenly

20: Convoy vehicles

22: Go, with 'on down'

23: Gallows loop

24: Put a counter to zero





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